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tapestrying

tapestrying is the present participle and gerund of tapestry.

Meaning of tapestry

Verb

tapestry (third-person singular simple present tapestries, present participle tapestrying, simple past and past participle tapestried)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) 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

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Questions about tapestrying

What is tapestrying the present participle and gerund of?
Tapestrying is the present participle and gerund of tapestry.

Words near tapestrying in the dictionary

  1. tapestry
  2. tapestry beetle
  3. tapestry beetles
  4. tapestry moth
  5. tapestry moths
  6. tapestrying
  7. tapestrylike
  8. tapet
  9. tapeta
  10. tapeta lucida
  11. tapetail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapestrying (page history and authors); tapestry (page history and authors). 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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