TAPESTRY
\tˈapəstɹˌɪ], \tˈapəstɹˌɪ], \t_ˈa_p_ə_s_t_ɹ_ˌɪ]\
Definitions of TAPESTRY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
By Noah Webster.
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A fabric in which threads are so woven as to form a picture.
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To hang, or adorn, with tapestry.
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Tapestried.
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Tapestrying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of woven hangings of wool and silk, often enriched with gold and silver, representing figures of men, animals, landscapes, etc., and formerly much used for lining or covering the walls and furniture of apartments, churches, etc. Tapestry is made by a process intermediate between weaving and embroidery, being worked in a web with needles instead of a shuttle. Short lengths of thread of the special colors required for the design are worked in at the necessary places and fastened at the back of the texture. The term tapestry is also applied to a variety of woven fabrics having a multiplicity of colors in their design, which, however, have no other characteristic of true tapestry.
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To adorn with tapestry, or as if with tapestry. "The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses."-Macaulay.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald