Tapestry

/ˈtæpəstɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls..

Definitions by Sense

1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
2. (by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

Example Sentences

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues […]

The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.

I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.

Synonyms for tapestry

Antonyms for tapestry

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Word Forms

• tapestries
• tapestrying
• tapestried

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