TAPESTRY

tapestry, arras

(noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs

tapestry, tapis

(noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery

tapestry

(noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy; “the tapestry of European history”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

tapestry (countable and uncountable, plural tapestries)

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

(by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.

Verb

tapestry (third-person singular simple present tapestries, present participle tapestrying, simple past and past participle tapestried)

(transitive, intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

Anagrams

• spattery, tryptase

Source: Wiktionary

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Tap"es*try, n.; pl. Tapestries. Etym: [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. Tapis, Tippet.]

Definition: 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. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth.

– Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

Tap"es*try, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapestried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapestrying.]

Definition: To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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