tapestry
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈtæpəstri/
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tapiz
- The living room was adorned with a beautiful tapestry that depicted a serene landscape.
- wool tapestry
- tapestry design
- series of tapestries
art, it's in the the tapestries, it's part of their lives, it's in their culture.
- art, it's in the the tapestries, it's part of their lives, it's in their culture.
- Nothing other than I would like to buy that tapestry.
- If you, if we think of a tapestry of Ganesh, I don't use the name, but I was named by Ron Das, Ganesh Das.
Examples
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The halls suddenly seemed like caverns for all the tapestries and stonework.
Fiction book (1991) -
Where are the candlesticks and the tapestries and the silver?
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I paid three million for that tapestry, then found out it is worth only one!
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Did you take the tapestries into town like Father asked?
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This is a castle, and we have many tapestries.
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During the course of the architecture, I found this incredible tapestry at the Paris flea market and the colors are so perfect.
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Several early copies survived, including a massive tapestry version exquisitely woven in silver, gold and silk.
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Niccolaus watched the tall young man circle the room, scrutinizing every tapestry and silver ornament.
Fiction book (1993) -
Brightly colored, rhythmic, and stylized figures populate many of the tapestries created at Thins.
Academic text (2002) -
The Inca then presented ceremonial gifts of cumbi, a luxurious tapestry-woven woolen textile, to regional nobility.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibers used for clothes and curtains
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2.8
A cloth made from fibres used for clothes and home items
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4.7
Decoration on cloth made by sewing thread into raised patterns
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4.6
A piece of cloth like a curtain that hangs in loose folds
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8.7
A rich thick fabric with raised patterns, often woven with gold or silver thread
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2.1
A decorative piece of fabric on a wall or over a window, like a tapestry
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3.0
A piece of cloth made by crossing threads in a pattern
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9.9
A heavy woven cloth that hangs on a wall to decorate it with pictures
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3.2
A decorative piece like a tapestry placed on a wall
A heavy decorated cloth used to cover furniture or hang on walls
A kind of sewing that uses yarn stitched through stiff open canvas to make pictures or patterns
Idioms
- Archaic
The many different experiences people have in life, both good and bad
Compounds
How Decorative
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3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tapestry comes from Old French tapis ('carpet') and tapisserie ('woven cloth'), so it originally named a heavy, decorated fabric made by weaving threads into pictures. That's why a tapestry is a thick, decorative cloth often hung on a wall.