tapestry
Collocations
4ADJ.
beautiful, ethnic, grand, historical, inside, little, mixed, old-fashioned
VERB + TAPESTRY
create, creating, reflects, side
TAPESTRY + NOUN
cultures, life, norman, palace
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
verb
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 […]
The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.
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6Sepia 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
WiktionaryEuropean 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.
WiktionaryWe 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 […]
WiktionaryThe banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.
WiktionaryI present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.
WiktionaryThe best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
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