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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tapestry
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rich
▪ Our boys would have weaved a rich tapestry in attack-not appeared as losers in one in Bayeux.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Displays include Eyemouth tapestry, history of Berwickshire fanning and fishing, and the wheelhouse of a modern fishing boat.
▪ He is like a hero in one of his tapestries, on an epic journey of artistic discovery.
▪ In the craft workshop there's the opportunity to enjoy painting and drawing, basketwork and tapestry.
▪ Lucy laughed: Jay thought of medieval tapestries and silver hunting horns.
▪ She had no idea there was a tapestry plaque made by the parishioners.
▪ Surely Miss Dersingham's tapestry had shown the arms in a lozenge?
▪ The room was flooded with a soft illumination, cleverly directed at the Gobelin tapestries that lined one wall.
▪ What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tapestry

Tapestry \Tap"es*try\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapestried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapestrying.] To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses.
--Macaulay.

Tapestry

Tapestry \Tap"es*try\, n.; pl. Tapestries. [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Tapis, Tippet.] 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.

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

Tapestry moth. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tapestry

late 14c., tapiestre, with unetymological -t-, from Old French tapisserie "tapestry" (14c.), from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric, carpet," from tapiz "carpet, floor covering" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tappetium, from Byzantine Greek tapetion, from classical Greek, diminutive of tapes (genitive tapetos) "heavy fabric, carpet, rug," from an Iranian source (compare Persian taftan "to turn, twist"), from PIE *temp- "to stretch." The figurative use is first recorded 1580s.

Wiktionary
tapestry

n. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

WordNet
tapestry
  1. n. something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history"

  2. a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery [syn: tapis]

  3. a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: arras]

Wikipedia
Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike cloth weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In tapestry weaving, weft yarns are typically discontinuous; the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design.

Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as linen or cotton. The weft threads are usually wool or cotton, but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives.

Tapestry (album)

Tapestry is the second album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. In the United States, it has been certified diamond by the RIAA with more than 10 million copies sold. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead single from the album — " It's Too Late"/" I Feel the Earth Move" — spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts. In 2003, Tapestry was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Tapestry (DHT)

Tapestry is a peer-to-peer overlay network which provides a distributed hash table, routing, and multicasting infrastructure for distributed applications. The Tapestry peer-to-peer system offers efficient, scalable, self-repairing, location-aware routing to nearby resources.

Tapestry (Don McLean album)

Tapestry is Don McLean's 1970 debut album. The album was originally released by Mediarts Records but was re-launched in 1971 by United Artists after United Artists' purchase of Mediarts. The album was also reissued in 1981 on Liberty Records with the song "Three Flights Up" deleted.

The album was produced by Jerry Corbitt of The Youngbloods.

Tapestry (Keith Getty album)

Tapestry is Keith Getty's first studio album with Kristyn Lennox, who later became his wife. Kristyn also replaced Máire Brennan on subsequent releases (nos. 2-4) of Keith's New Irish Hymns CD series. All songs on the album are by Keith and Kristyn.

Tapestry (CHFI)

Tapestry was the title of a Canadian, syndicated FM radio program of the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s, hosted by Charlotte O'Dell (Dulmage, 2011). The program, produced by CHFI-FM Toronto, consisted of folk, soft rock, and pop music selections, interspersed with O'Dell's musings and readings of poetry and prose. Episodes were thematic (e.g., the moon, Christmas), and aired between 11:00 PM and 12:00 AM on CHFI, and also on stations such as CKLM Windsor and CKXM Edmonton.

Tapestry (disambiguation)

Tapestry is a form of woven textile art.

Tapestry or tapestries may also refer to:

  • Needlepoint, a form of canvaswork
  • Tapestry (DHT), a distributed hash table protocol
  • Tapestries MUCK, an online MUCK
  • Apache Tapestry, a Java web application framework that implements the MVC design pattern
  • A holographic storage product by InPhase Technologies
  • Tapestry (CBC radio), a Canadian documentary/interview program on spirituality
  • Tapestry (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1993 sixth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • A character in the Wildcats (comics) title
  • A song by Protest the Hero from Scurrilous
  • "Tapestries", a song by Sphere3 from Comeuppance
  • The Tapestry Series by von Henry H. Neff
  • A song from Tapestry (album), the Carole King album
Tapestry (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Tapestry" is the 15th episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 141st overall. It was originally released on February 15, 1993, in broadcast syndication. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise. Ronald D. Moore was credited with writing the episode, but the basis of the story was a collaborative effort from the writing crew. "Tapestry" was directed by Les Landau, with the title coming from executive producer Michael Piller.

In this episode, Q ( John de Lancie) allows a supposedly deceased Captain Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart) to re-visit a pivotal event in his youth that he since regrets. Picard changes the past, but upon returning to the present he finds that it made him the man he became. He returns once more to the past and returns it to the way it originally took place. Picard wakes up in the present, unsure if the events took place or if it was as a result of his injury.

A number of previously screen used props were used, including some from the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, and from previous episodes. The white room scenes were problematic as there were concerns that the all-white robe worn by de Lancie would make him appear to be a floating head on camera. While Moore was pleased with the episode, Piller was not and some fans complained that it glorified violence. "Tapestry" received Nielsen ratings of 13.8 percent, and critics responded very positively with praise directed to the chemistry between Stewart and de Lancie.

Tapestry (CBC radio)

Tapestry is a Canadian radio program, which airs Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One featuring documentary and interview programming relating to spirituality, faith and religion. The program was created by producer Peter Skinner and host Peter Downie. The first episode was broadcast in September 1994. Downie was a former host of the CBC Television program Man Alive, which was also about spirituality, faith and religion. Skinner was an associate producer of Tapestry's predecessor on CBC Radio, Open House, as well as at Man Alive.

Peter Downie was the program's first host, for the 1994/95 and 95/96 seasons. The program's current host is Mary Hynes.

The opening theme of Tapestry is taken from " Bitter Sweet Symphony", a song from the alternative rock band The Verve.

Tapestry (horse)

Tapestry foaled 18 January 2011 is an Irish breed Thoroughbred racehorse. She ran three times as a two-year-old, winning on her first two starts including the Debutante Stakes. Her greatest success came in 2014 when she won the 2014 Yorkshire Oaks ending the Oaks and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Taghrooda's unbeaten record. She will stay in training as a 4 year old in 2015.

Usage examples of "tapestry".

I paused to take in the multicolored tapestry of melted and rehardened minerals, still furiously aboil to the untutored eye.

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

Signing for Alec to hold back the tapestry and keep watch, Seregil began a careful inspection.

If, as has chanced to others--as chanced, for example, to Mangan-- outcast from home, health and hope, with a charred past and a bleared future, an anchorite without detachment and self-cloistered without self-sufficingness, deposed from a world which he had not abdicated, pierced with thorns which formed no crown, a poet hopeless of the bays and a martyr hopeless of the palm, a land cursed against the dews of love, an exile banned and proscribed even from the innocent arms of childhood--he were burning helpless at the stake of his unquenchable heart, then he might have been inconsolable, then might he have cast the gorge at life, then have cowered in the darkening chamber of his being, tapestried with mouldering hopes, and hearkened to the winds that swept across the illimitable wastes of death.

Rohain tucked the feather inside a tapestry aulmoniere, fastened with buttons of jet.

At her waist the tapestry aulmoniere remained firmly attached, though bedraggled.

Perhaps Baldric had taken to unraveling himself instead of the tapestries.

He watched as Baldric bent down, picked up the end of a thread and very calmly and deliberately began to unravel the tapestry.

Alex recognized the gear: the long, flowing, bardly cloak and the beat-up carpetbag made from remnants of tapestries Baldric had no doubt worked his magic on previously.

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

The hall at Bowmont, with its arbitrary collection of broadswords, incomprehensible tapestries and a weasel which the Basher had stuffed, but without success, was not a place in which anybody lingered.

He praised the Chevalier twins, claiming their galerie had the best tapestries and antique rugs in all of Paris-which to him meant in all the world-and raved about Jacques Perrin, an aggressive dealer who was one of the first foreigners to exhibit at BLIrlington House-the London show that alternated years with the Biennale and admitted more foreign dealers than Grosvenor House.

Longerman, however, had murmured something about removing Tapestry to a more accommodating trainer, and I had not been unselfish enough to decline the offer, and Binny had fumed in vain.

In their place wafted cream-colored curtains of caffoy or lace, chairs and sofas done in satins and tapestry, and live plants in pots, along with freshly cut flowers in crystal vases.

Gaius Marius, oblivious to the fact that his Chian tapestry drape had flopped itself all the wrong way.