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1. (n.) tapestry
a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a reversible design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
2. tapestry
a machine-woven, nonreversible reproduction of this.
3. (v.t.) tapestry
to furnish, cover, or adorn with tapestry.
4. tapestry
to represent or depict in a tapestry.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME tapst(e)ry, tapistry < MF tapisserie carpeting. See tapis)
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1. (noun) tapestry
something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs
"the tapestry of European history"
2. (noun) tapestry, tapis
a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
3. (noun) tapestry, arras
a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) tapestry
a fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery
2. (verb) tapestry
to adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry
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Sense: (a piece of) cloth into which a picture or design has been sewn or woven, hung on a wall for decoration or used to cover eg the seats of chairs
Four large tapestries hung on the walls.
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 Afrikaans: tapisserie |
 Arabic: نَسيج مُطَرَّز، تَطْريز |
 Bulgarian: гоблен |
 Brazilian: tapeçaria |
 Czech: tapisérie |
 German: der Gobelin |
 Danish: gobelin; vægtæppe |
 Greek: χαλί τοίχου |
 Spanish: tapicería |
 Estonian: gobelään |
 Farsi: فرشینه |
 Finnish: seinävaate |
 French: tapisserie |
 Hebrew: שָׁטִיחַ קִיר |
 Hindi: टेपेस्ट्री कपड़ा जिसमे चि |
 Croatian: goblen |
 Hungarian: (fali)szőnyeg |
 Indonesian: kain bersulam |
 Icelandic: myndvefnaður |
 Italian: arazzo |
 Japanese: つづれ織 |
 Korean: 무늬를 놓은 양탄자 |
 Lithuanian: gobelenas |
 Latvian: gobelēns |
 Malay: dewangga |
 Dutch: tapisserie |
 Norwegian: bildevev, gobelin |
 Polish: gobelin |
 Portuguese: tapeçaria |
 Romanian: tapet; tapiserie |
 Russian: гобелен |
 Slovak: tapiséria, gobelín |
 Slovenian: tapiserija |
 Serbian: tapiserija |
 Swedish: gobeläng |
 Thai: สิ่งทอหรือม่านลายดอกซึ่งแ |
 Turkish: goblen, duvarörtüsü |
 Taiwanese: 掛毯 |
 Ukrainian: гобелен |
 Urdu: منقش کپڑا، مشجر |
 Vietnamese: thảm thêu |
 Chinese: 挂毯 |
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