tapstry
tapstry is the obsolete form of tapestry.
Meaning of tapestry
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
Forms of tapstry
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Questions about tapstry
- What is tapstry the obsolete form of?
- Tapstry is the obsolete form of tapestry.
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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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