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tap⋅es⋅try

[tap-uh-stree] noun, plural -tries, verb, -tried, -try⋅ing.
–noun
1. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
2. a machine-woven reproduction of this.
–verb (used with object)
3. to furnish, cover, or adorn with tapestry.
4. to represent or depict in a tapestry.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME tapst(e)ry, tapistry < MF tapisserie carpeting. See tapis, -ery


tap⋅es⋅try⋅like, adjective
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Word Origin & History

tapestry 
1434, variant of tapissery (1426), from M.Fr. tapisserie "tapestry" (14c.), from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric," from O.Fr. tapiz (12c.), from V.L. *tappetium, from Byzantine Gk. tapetion, from classical Gk., dim. of tapes (gen. tapetos) "tapestry, heavy fabric," probably from an Iranian source (cf. Pers. taftan, tabidan "to turn, twist"). The figurative use is first recorded 1581.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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