tapestry
noun/ˈtæpəstɹi/
Etymology
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
- derived from τάπης
- derived from tapisserie
- inherited from tapestrie
Definitions
A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
Anything with variegated or complex details.
- 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.
To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- neighbortapetum
- neighbortapetum lucidum
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tapestry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA