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Definition of tapestry:

  • (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
  • (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs

Sentence Examples:

The tapestries exceed in beauty any I ever saw.

An allusion to verses or inscriptions on tapestry hangings.

That 'was formerly celebrated for its tapestries.'

The blazing tapestry forced the robbers forward.

He never weaves a tapestry; he assembles a mosaic.

The Countess proceeded to draw aside the tapestry.

The youngest of the three arts is tapestry.

Look up the old tapestries and stamped leathers.

Under the stairs was a hanging of tapestry.

This tapestry lined the room on every side.

Here and there tapestries hung on the walls.

It is hung with tapestry and old pictures.

Bring the tapestry needle through to the back.

The walls were painted or hung with tapestry.

They worked at the tapestry in the solar.

We are now prepared for examining the Tapestry.

The subjects of these two tapestries are obscure.

These grotesque figures form an ideal tapestry design.

The tapestry in the castle is very handsome.

That is the crimson tapestry of my chamber.

Beautiful paintings and tapestries hung on the walls.

The subject of the tapestry was Diana hunting.

Its curtains were of thick and faded tapestry.

As painting rose in fame, tapestry sunk in estimation.

In older English "arras" is used also for tapestry.

Tapestry wool is not yet made in all shades.

Josephine was seated before a tapestry-frame working upon embroidery.

Fire leaped from the flaming tapestry to meet it.

How old is the tapestry, by the way?

I didn't think that was what tapestry meant.

Tapestries and doors separated it from the box.

The walls are covered with interesting tapestry pictures.

"Don't you think that tapestry 'eats the rooms?"

His glance reached the tapestry and he understood.

The walls were partially covered with hand-woven tapestries.

Light it and hide it under a piece of tapestry.

The door behind the tapestry was being opened.

It was somewhat richly hung with old tapestry.

Primitive tapestry is necessarily linear, geometrical, and rectangular.

Sounds heard without, Vivien gets behind the tapestry.

Yet this is what the Tapestry silently suggests.

"Who is the lady leaning against the tapestry?"

There was tapestry over one part of the wall.

He paused again, and gravely withdrew behind the tapestry.

Paint and tapestry can cover up a good deal!

There is something fine and stirring about Matilda's tapestry.

The process of making this tapestry is exceedingly tedious.

His chapter on tapestry is more full and interesting.

There is also some tapestry woven by his mother.

These tapestries are exceptionally fine specimens of this art.

Pushing aside the tapestry curtain of Absalom, he entered.

This tapestry made a very great impression upon me.

The table was covered with tapestry under glass.

George went into the bedroom, to look at the tapestry.

Still more important is it to observe this in tapestry.

Cried Herne, dragging Norris forcibly behind the tapestry.

I am always on the wrong side of my tapestry.

I looked no more; that tapestry gave me the shivers.

Thread a double strand of yarn into a tapestry needle.

The top floor is given to tapestries and embroideries.

Well, he knows now what the tapestries are worth.

On the walls were several pictures and two tapestries.

He pointed with his finger to the tapestry door.

These tapestries tell the downfall of our first parents.

Then he slowly began to fold the tapestry together.

A tapestry on the wall immediately attracted his attention.

On other frames are stretched old tapestries for repairs.

He brushed aside the tapestries and strode swiftly forward.

She placed it on the velvet tapestry between them.

They resemble tapestries and are unfit for hard usage.

Ivy tapestries were clinging to the ragged stone surfaces.

The tapestry was pushed aside, and a man entered.

And I saw the tapestry of the evening fall.

At the last-named place some old tapestry was inspected.

Was that the poison running on the tapestry-wrought floor?

There was a round table, with a tapestry cover.

The walls of the apartment were hung with tapestry.

They eat on beds, or tapestry spread on the ground.

Identification marks they are, when old tapestries come our way.

In consequence the tapestry will be arrested in its execution.

Remains of tapestry, containing probably a fine collection of moths.

Stewart into a neighboring corridor where some tapestries were hanging.

There was an opening in the tapestry to give exit.

He strolled about, glancing up at the pictures and tapestries.

The helmets are similar to those of the Bayeux tapestry.

These tapestries had been removed to a place of safety.

You may see such banners illustrated in the Bayeux tapestry.

Spiders had woven their tapestry in all the corners.

The walls were hung with rich but grotesque tapestry.

The seats were covered with cloth and rich tapestry.

And he touched the slashed tapestry with his finger.

The room was large and heavily hung with tapestries.

Quinton, and reproductions of old pictures, tapestry, and plate.

Muttered Dolores, still pressing her ear against the tapestry.

Pictures and tapestries stared at her from the walls.

Tapestries, robes, jewels, and perfumes, lay at her disposal.

The desks and benches were covered with rich tapestry.

Covered with thick paste and pounded, it forms tapestries.

The copy fairly shouts color, tapestries, and period styles.

She laments the tapestry of her peaceful, rolling heights.