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  1. noun A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.
  2. noun Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth: the tapestry of world history.
  3. transitive verb To hang or decorate with tapestry.
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  • I wanted to match some wools for my tapestry-work the other day My dear, what is it we were talking about? —  Renée Mauperin
  • It seemed to him that those brackets were of such a length as to afford space enough for a man to hide between the tapestry--which reached right down to the floor--and the wall. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
  • Carnis resurrectionem-- A shadow fell across the tapestry, and glancing from the blessed symbol, he saw before him, kneeling on the rug, the figure of a woman. —  Under the Rose
  • This went on vigorously as ever even when the tapestry was lightly brushed aside and a rather short, keen-looking, grizzled-bearded man appeared, in square black velvet cap and long gown, which half hid a closely fitting black velvet doublet and silken hose. —  The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
  • For years she had been copying some moth-eaten fragments of Stuart tapestry, and at her death left the work still uncompleted. —  The Nebuly Coat
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  1. Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek tapētion, diminutive of tapēs, perhaps of Iranian origin.

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  1. Formerly also tapistry, tapstrye; with excrescent t, for earlier tapisserie, tapysserye, from Middle English tapecery, tapecerye, *tapiserie = Spanish tapecería = Portuguese tapeçaria, tapiçaria = Italian tappezzeria (Middle Latin tapiceria), from Old French tapisserie, tapestry, hangings, from tapisser, furnish with tapestry: see tapis, v.
  2. Formerly also tapistry; from tapestry, n.
 

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