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tapstry

tapstry is the obsolete form of tapestry.

Meaning of tapestry

Noun

tapestry (countable and uncountable, plural tapestries)

  1. 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
  2. (broadly) 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

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Forms of tapstry

pluraltapstries

Questions about tapstry

What is tapstry the obsolete form of?
Tapstry is the obsolete form of tapestry.

Words near tapstry in the dictionary

  1. tapster
  2. tapsters
  3. tapstress
  4. tapstresses
  5. tapstries
  6. tapstry
  7. tapt
  8. Tapta
  9. Taptap
  10. taptastic
  11. Taptee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapstry (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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