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tapestry

/ˈtæpəstɹi/

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What does tapestry mean?

noun

  1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
  2. Anything with variegated or complex details.

verb

  1. To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈtæpəstɹi/

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Thirty first-rate pictures, uniformly framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which were hung with tapestry of severe design.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
The tapestry, the embroidered bed, the illumination, the glasses, the lightness and novelty of the ornaments, and the ceilings, are delightful.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
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By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
Mary and Colin heard him marching—marching, until he passed through the tapestry door on to the soft carpet of Colin’s own passage.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
Jerome alighted, and was shown into a superb room, with the walls finely decorated with splendid tapestry, and the ceilings exquisitely frescoed.
William Wells BrownClotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's DaughterProject Gutenberg ebook #241