Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Obsolete Tapestry or comparable material used for draperies, carpeting, and furniture covering.
- idiom. on the tapis Under consideration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the Philippine Islands, a broad sash of cotton or silk, about one yard wide and two yards long, worn by Tagalog and other Filipino women wrapped around the waist over the saya.
- n. Woolen material used for floor-cloths and hangings, as carpeting, rugs, and tapestry. Hence, since such material was used for table-cloths, to be upon the tapis is to be on the table, or under consideration.
- To cover with ornamental figures as in tapestry; embroider.
- To carpet; hang with tapestry; upholster.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
- v. rare To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French; see tapestry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Tall, dark trees rose in ordered majesty about the château, and before it a wide band of lawn, called a tapis vert, ran to the lodge-gates that opened on the highroad.”
“[FOOTNOTE 26: A tapis was a small cloth or tapestry sometimes used to cover a table; hence the expression "on the tapis" meant "on the table" or "under consideration."] "You and Kilcullen don't hit it off together -- eh, Ballindine?" said”
“There is sure to be some large picnic, some delightful gathering on the "tapis," when they choose to exhibit their griefs.”
“C'est vraiment un beau pays, très hospitalier, où vous serez tentée de faire beaucoup d'achats!!! poteries, vêtements et objets de cuir, cuivres, tapis, souvenirs de toutes sortes, etc., etc ...”
“Celle des toitures est comme un tapis inégal de vieilles tuiles d'argile claire rehaussé de quelques cheminées.”
“La vidéo ci-après montre Sameer Mishra, âgée de 13 ans, qui épelle correctement le mot numnah, autre mot pour numdah, qui désigne un feutre grossier, et une selle de cheval ou un tapis brodé fabriqué dans cette matière.”
“Comme de coutume, les invités ont rejoint leur siège en marchant sur un tapis rouge.”
“Then at night, you set anchor in the middle of a tapis vert, a simple grass lawn on land perhaps but out in the Pacific, it's a vast cultivated field of bioluminescent dinoflagelletes.”
“Carte internationale du tapis vegetal et dea conditions ecologiques. 3 coupures au 1/1,000,000 de Madagascar.”
“Gigantic Suprematist geometries filled with salt-loving algae vacillating through hues of pinks, reds, yellows and oranges as the new tapis vert.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tapis’.
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Floor Coverings
Words for carpets, rugs, mats, and other floor coverings.
tatami, drugget, bocking, corticine, wood-carpet, wood-carpeting, altar-carpet, scatter rug, throw rug, carpeting, kidderminster, floorcloth and 64 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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