Definition of tapestry

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tap·es·try    (tp-str) KEY  

NOUN:
pl. tap·es·tries

1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.
2. Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth: the tapestry of world history.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
tap·es·tried   (--strd) KEY  , tap·es·try·ing , tap·es·tries   (--strz) KEY  

1. To hang or decorate with tapestry.
2. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek taption, diminutive of taps, perhaps of Iranian origin

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