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Malevolent type pinching European tapestry
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gobelin
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gobelin \Gob"e*lin\, a. Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.
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For information on Gobelin tapestries and carpets, see the Gobelins Manufactory article Gobelin was the name of a family of dyers , who in all probability came originally from Reims , and who in the middle of the 15th century established themselves in the ...
Usage examples of gobelin.
Botot and I were shown into an elegantly furnished entryway hung with Gobelin tapestries.
The room was full of ormolu clocks and vases, Gobelin tapestries, several gold and silver tea equipages, a brass statue of the Virgin Mary and three immense candle snuffers.
I have seen her more than once make game, with infinite wit, of the Abbe Gobelin, her confessor, who is a pedant and avaricious, I am persuaded that she knows much more about it than all these proud doctors in theology, and that she would be thoroughly capable of confessing her confessor.
Then they crossed a parlor, a dining-room, a vestibule full of beautiful works of art, of beautiful Beauvais, Gobelin and Flanders tapestries.
With people like Wittgenstein and Duveen Gobelin, the tapestry people.
A young groom appeared with his wooden shoes filled with straw, shuffling about on the marble floor like a mangy dog on a Gobelin tapestry.
I follow the ebb and flow of colored lines, picture Herri moving through this Gobelin tapestry of economic confusion and geopolitics.
Sauveur with its Gobelin tapestries and choir stalls emblazoned with the Golden Fleece.
I said, and stood in front of a Gobelin tapestry depicting several hunting scenes that could just as easily have accommodated a scene featuring a full-scale version of the Hindenburg.
In the very centre of the chamber there stood a large four-post bed, with curtains of Gobelin tapestry looped back from the pillow.
Where are all my paintings, my silver, my gorgeous carpets, the Gobelins tapestry which ran the length of that wall?
To them, a Gobelins is a piece of cloth that keeps out a draught, or makes a good tarpaulin to prevent hay blowing off a rick.
A small tapestry of the Gobelins made a ragged glow of color on the wall.
It was a Gelot son who answered the telephone when he called the cardboard-box factory on Avenue des Gobelins from his office.
Gelot, on Avenue des Gobelins, who must have made out the list of jewelers visited by Fernand Barillard.