arras

• “Mr. Morris preferred the word arras as attached to his weavings, tapestry having sometimes the odious modern meaning of machine-made figured stuffs for any sort of furniture covering.”

  The Tapestry Book

• “Some fine specimens of ancient tapestry of Arras, hence the name arras, chiefly in shades of grey and blue, and also specimens of the delicate hand-made Arras lace, are here.”

  In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"

• “This tapestry was commonly known as arras, from the name of the French town where it was chiefly woven; and behind it, since it stood forward from the wall, was a most convenient place for a spy.”

  All's Well Alice's Victory

• “As the word arras had entered English vocabularies centuries before, gobelins became a synonym for tapestry hanging, regardless of the place of origin.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “He asked me if the arras were a present, to which I answered in the affirmative, as the prince was by, lest it might be seized.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “In older English "arras" is used also for tapestry.”

  The Nibelungenlied

• “These I called my "arras," having picked up the word from hearing my father read Shakespeare aloud at night after we were in the trundle-bed.”

  When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood

• “It lent her strength to remove the bed, which it was not difficult to do; but the room was hung with old-fashioned glazed linen, when many years before it had been fitted up as a bed-chamber: this kind of arras entirely hid the door.”

  The Old Manor House

• “Another good night of 'arras' and it was great to see the Ronnie Baxter road show still trucking on.”

  News round-up

• “During the party, an amateur production of Hamlet is staged and, at the moment Polonius is due to be stabbed behind the arras, the actor playing him, a political high flyer named Lord Auldearn, is shot dead.”

  2009 January 06 « One-Minute Book Reviews

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