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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:

She wished to keep all the furniture of her room, her bed, her tapestries, her clock, everything.

The walls, from the floor to the low ceiling, appeared to be hung with a strange, dim tapestry.

I remember all the men and beasts and ships of those tapestries looked most extraordinary as to shape.

George, pressed the eye of the dragon, lifted the tapestry, and entered the room of a printing shop.

He had no sooner arrived in a hall hung with tapestry, than the Captain prosecuted his military criticism.

The tapestry curtain was swept aside at the base, leaving a small passage clear to the room beyond.

The cartoons, however, are far more important than the tapestries, because they are the work of Raphael himself.

When he interested himself in tapestry, one of the three important existing factories was stationed in the Louvre.

Nowhere is the life of the weaver so nearly like that of his prototype in the golden age of tapestry.

The case in which one of these was packed had been broken open, and the tapestry had disappeared.

And all around her, save on the Leghorns' hills, was the gay delicate tapestry of the wild flowers.

The girl stood tall and straight among the tall, straight pines like a figure on an ancient tapestry.

Then he closed the safe door, closed the tapestry upon it and turned toward a dainty dressing table.

The neighbors, up earlier than usual, hung cloths with flowers or figures, worked in tapestry, along the streets.

His ancestors may have feasted upon royal tapestries and laid their eggs in the purple robes of kings!

The Council Chamber also merits a visit, for there may be seen the priceless hangings of Brussels tapestry.

The bedding, the tapestry above all, the abundance of clean and fine linen was a matter of wonder.

Behind him was a crimson tapestry, with his arms (a red cross) glittering on a multitude of shields.

Ives, it was no covering of tapestry which hung above him, but the threshold of the eternal world.

The columns and walls are covered with canvas, painted in imitation of tapestry, and illustrative of Scripture scenes.

The consoles found place beneath great mirrors and, occasionally, beneath large paintings, tapestries, and the like.

Now, with feverish, horrible rapidity it was racing up the tapestries on the other side of the room.

The angels are after Boucher, the only coat of arms in tapestry known to which Boucher has contributed.

The tapestry lay there for some time; but it would appear that little value was attached to it.

It is a most feminine occupation, well replacing, on a more liberal and rational scale, the tapestry of our grandmothers.

A magnificent staircase swept up from it to landings whose walls were hung with tapestries the world knew.

These colors did remind me of the stains of the windows of old churches, and of rich tapestry.

Hang your modern painting; but let its link with the faded tapestry be the dull, old frame.

The study of modern tapestry is a branch by itself with which we are unable to concern ourselves now.

The room we entered was rather long than wide, hung with tapestry, and lighted by silver lamps.

Yet wandering now through these deserted halls, we seek in vain for furniture or tapestry or works of art.

Here, as in the tapestries, we again find a finely conceived development of the event, and an excellent composition.

The few facts here collected may be of service to the future writer of the history of English tapestries.

The exterior walls are hung, on this one day of the year, with wondrous tapestries that Queen Isabella knew.

Other pieces of tapestry followed, and the heaviest of the cabinets was found to be nearly full of them.

These two rooms remain in their original state, furnished with the same tapestry chairs as when he occupied them.

Valuable tapestries were hung upon their walls, and the best in their national museums were transferred to their buildings.

These diversions did not, however, interrupt the daily lessons, the task in spinning, or the newly-begun tapestry.

Yet even though tapestry is no longer entirely true to itself, these tapestry paintings are nevertheless beautiful and fit.

He was engaged to supervise the translation of Raphael's cartoons for the famous series of the Apostles into tapestry.

Not a ray could find its way through the windows, blocked up with felt, hung with tapestries.

They must sit at home and knit or make beautiful tapestries to show the knights when they come home.

Delicious, suggestive of a beautiful tapestry, rich and ornate, yet always quiet, are the brown reliefs upon the stone.

She read many books, practiced her music, worked at her tapestry, and last, not least, studied herself.

Below there was nothing to be seen but silken tapestries, very rich and of extraordinary length and breadth.

Some weeks ago they had sent to our agent to ask if he knew the origin of this wonderful tapestry.

"Yes," she breathed softly, "a tapestry door leading to the small corridor, and thence into my sleeping apartment."

She was removing a stain from a tapestry chair, and I watched the process with a childish interest.

"She extracted the fibers of the lotus root, and wove them with silk to make tapestry for altars."

A pavilion erected on the deck of a ship, richly hung with tapestry, quite closed in at back at first.

And he pushed him into his bedroom, which was divided from the study by a mere tapestry curtain.

The above picture, showing two soldiers of William the Conqueror's army, is taken from the celebrated Bayeux tapestry.

An old tapestry is of such value that mere association with it adds to the market price of newer work.

To admit of passing in and out the door a slit was made, or two tapestries joined at this spot.

It was hung with six pieces of tapestry, and the floor was partly covered by an Eastern carpet.

Along the wall at his side hung splendid tapestries, whose colors would have delighted him at another time.

Have a paper on tapestry made at home, in castles, and even in royal residences, by the household of women.

There were scarlet hangings, fountains, statues, banners, tapestries, flowers, palms, everything that could make it bright and beautiful.

The Duke stopped at a gap in the line of pictures in which there hung a strip of old tapestry.

The original hangs in the nun's choir, a fitting pendant to the splendid tapestries which cover the walls.

Often her eyes wandered from pictures to tapestries, then to little touches everywhere that told of lavish expenditure.

At the same instant the tapestry was raised, the door opened, and some twenty persons entered the room.

Presently you could see the whole array of the enemy spread out like some fair picture on a long tapestry.

Dropping the tapestry she turned, but very quickly, for again she heard or thought she heard a noise.

There came a sound at the door of the room and a small golden head came from behind the tapestry.

This court provided four halls in the four corridors, which could be screened off by tapestries and curtains.

The bright blue tapestries on the walls gleamed; chairs and tables were covered by a hundred confused objects.

Sometimes they were hung on the tapestry, also, though not when the latter depicted a story of itself.

For fertile and varied imagination this piece is quite uncommon even among grotesques, the most imaginative type of decorative tapestries.

The house was filled with curious and beautiful things, pictures, ivories, marbles, and tapestries, and with many friends.

Many mysteries were exhibited in the streets through which he passed, and they were all hung with tapestries.

These cushions and stuffed seats have perished, but it is to be concluded that they were covered with tapestry.

Near the door that leads to the service rooms there is a huge screen made of one piece of wondrous tapestry.

Madame pretended to be greatly occupied: she was altering a group of flowers that she was working in tapestry.

Then he opened another door and led Billie into a large, brilliantly lighted room, hung with the richest tapestries.

Their names, woven in the tapestry of his memory, needed in most cases but a touch to restore them.

Shading in tapestry weaving is carried out by a hatching process which is most simply explained by a diagram.

It was first put up with the tapestry, on the marriage of the present King, then Prince of Wales.

The Hercules chamber was named after the tapestry which hid the dull gray plaster of its walls.

This is a high-warp tapestry which authorities variously place as the product of the Eleventh or the Twelfth Centuries.

Blanc says that tapestries were intended to cover the bare walls, but not to make us forget their existence.

Moore that with regard to me, she has as yet seen nothing but the wrong side of the tapestry.

This was his making of the cartoons for the series of tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel.

They occupied a corner near the end, with a dense mass of trees behind them and a tapestry door.

On he went, through another chamber, and into a spacious hall with marble floors and hangings of rich tapestry.

Her hands, palms downwards, were pressed hard against the woven surface of the tapestry on either side of her.

Then come three rooms covered with tapestries, the last containing a pretty statue of a girl, sometimes called Niobe.

It seems assumed that this variance would not have occurred, had the tapestry been in existence when he wrote.

I lifted the tapestry to examine them, and observed a steel plate fixed in the portion I had bared.

One then enters an apartment in which the tapestries are hung which were worked after the drawings of Raphael.

The walls of the hall are hung with the pictured tapestries or beautiful pieces of red and green silk.

Of the figures on a tapestry, hanging from a balcony at the King's Head, I cannot discover the meaning.

The richness, the delicacy and the good design of tapestry can give much value to this kind of decoration.

The strange costumes were reflected in a score of mirrors sunk in the walls at intervals between the tapestries.

Unfortunately the tapestry has not come down to us in the condition in which it left the makers' hands.

Its first utilitarian purpose being fulfilled, tapestry becomes a decorative art designed only to please and rest the eye.

The second was more primitive in its nature and recalled more directly the elementary motive of tapestry and embroidery.

In one chamber are several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the queen gives audience to foreign ambassadors.

There are the designs for tapestries in the basement; Blind Man's Buff and other themes illustrating national traits.

And one of them points out to him, behind some tapestry, the body of a man with an ass's head.