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noun. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.

noun. A cloth embroidered with designs or scenes, especially one made in the Middle Ages.

noun. Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth.

transitive verb. To hang or decorate with tapestry.

transitive verb. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.

noun. A fabric resembling textile fabrics in that it consists of a warp upon which colored threads of wool, silk, gold, or silver are fixed to produce a pattern, but differing from it in the fact that these threads are not thrown with the shuttle, but are put in one by one with a needle.

noun. Tapestry now made in the city of Aubusson for wall-hangings and curtains. The greater part of the modern tapestry offered for sale in Paris is attributed to this make. Some of it is of great beauty; but in general old designs are copied, or modified to suit the size of rooms for which the hangings are ordered.

noun. By abuse of the name, a printed worsted cloth for covering chairs, sofas, etc., in imitation of tapestry. See gobelin.

To adorn with tapestry.

To adorn with hangings or with any pendent covering.

noun. A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.

noun. a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth.

noun. Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

transitive verb. To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

noun. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

noun. Anything with variegated or complex details.

verb. To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a 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

noun. something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs

"Meanwhile as a backdrop the tapestry is an ongoing piece of work, as we say in the NHS."

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