tapestry
/ˈtæpəstɹi/
tapestry noun: a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
Noun
tapestry (countable and uncountable, plural tapestries)
- A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- 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.2013 January-February, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59
Verb
tapestry (third-person singular simple present tapestries, present participle tapestrying, simple past and past participle tapestried)
- 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 […]1833, Adolphus Slade, Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c., "Captain Pasha's Alarm", page 152
- 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.1854 September 13, Nathaniel Hawthorne, English Note-Books, "Conway Castle"
tapestry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tapestry in Hindi
- टेपेस्ट्री, टेपस्ट्री, टेपेस्ट्रिंग
tapestry in Tamil
- ஓவியத்திரை
tapestry in Marathi
- टेपेस्ट्री, टेपेस्टरींग, टेपेस्ट्रींग
tapestry in Urdu
- tapestry
- قالین qālīn
More languagesFewer languages
- tapestry in Bengali
- টেপেস্ট্রি, টেপেস্ট্রিং
- tapestry in Telugu
- టేప్స్ట్రింగ్
- tapestry in Malayalam
- ടേപ്പ്സ്റ്ററിംഗ്, ടേപ്സ്റ്ററിംഗ്
- tapestry in Kannada
- ಟ್ಯಾಪೆಸ್ಟ್ರಿ, ಟ್ಯಾಪೆಸ್ಟ್ರಿಂಗ್, ಟೇಪ್ಸ್ಟ್ರಿಂಗ್
- tapestry in Punjabi
- ਟੈਪਸਟਰੀ, ਟੇਪਸਟਰੀ, ਟੇਪਸਟਰਿੰਗ
- tapestry in Gujarati
- ટેપેસ્ટ્રી, ટેપેસ્ટરી, ટેપેસ્ટ્રીંગ
- tapestry in Odia
- ଟେପ୍ଷ୍ଟ୍ରି, ଟେପେଷ୍ଟ୍ରି, ଟ୍ଯ଼ାପଷ୍ଟ୍ରି
- tapestry in Nepali
- टेपेस्ट्री, ट्यापस्ट्री, टेपेस्ट्रिङ
Examples of tapestry in a sentence
- Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.
- “It's part of life's rich tapestry,” he murmured, and then looked at her and sighed.
- The rich tapestry of interlocking fields and forces weaves umptillion configurations, and every one is beautiful.
Forms of tapestry
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tapestries |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tapestries |
| present participle | tapestrying |
| past participle | tapestried |
| past | tapestried |
Origin of tapestry
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
Words formed from tapestry
Phrases with tapestry
Questions about tapestry
- What does tapestry mean?
- Tapestry means a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
- What is tapestry in Hindi?
- Tapestry in Hindi is टेपेस्ट्री, टेपस्ट्री, टेपेस्ट्रिंग. See Tapestry meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tapestry?
- Tapestry can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tapestry?
- Tapestry is pronounced /ˈtæpəstɹi/.
- What is the plural of tapestry?
- The plural of tapestry is tapestries.
Words near tapestry in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tapestry (page history and authors); tapestry (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tapestry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); قالین (Urdu) (page history and authors); tapestry (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tapestry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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