Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - tapestry
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Tapestry
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(tapestries) 1. A tapestry is a large piece of heavy cloth with a picture sewn on it using coloured threads. N-VAR 2. You can refer to something as a tapestry when it is made up of many varied types of people or things. (LITERARY) Hedgerows and meadows are thick with a tapestry of wild flowers. N-COUNT: with supp ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -tries) Etymology: Middle English, modification of Anglo-French tapicerie, from tapit, tapis carpet, hanging, from Greek tapetion, diminutive of tapet-, tapes carpet Date: 15th century 1. a. a heavy handwoven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains, and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs b. a nonreversible imitation of ~ used chiefly for upholstery c. embroidery on canvas resembling woven ~ needlepoint ~ 2. something resembling ~ (as in complexity or richness of design) nature's rich ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a thick textile fabric in which coloured weft threads are woven to form pictures or designs. b embroidery imitating this, usu. in wools on canvas. c a piece of such embroidery. 2 events or circumstances etc. compared with a tapestry in being intricate, interwoven, etc. (life's rich tapestry). Derivatives tapestried adj. Etymology: ME, alt. f. tapissery f. OF tapisserie f. tapissier tapestry-worker or tapisser to carpet, f. tapis: see TAPIS ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. гобелен; затканная от руки материя; декоративная ткань (также tapestry material) Russian tapestry —- ткань для гардин covered in tapestry —- увешанный гобеленами; обитый декоративной тканью to hang a wall with tapestry —- увешать стену гобеленами 2. увешивать гобеленами 3. обивать декоративной тканью 4. ткать гобелены ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) затканная от руки материя; гобелен 2) декоративная ткань, имитирующая гобелен ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 14c., from M.Fr. tapisserie "tapestry," from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric," from Byzantine Gk. tapetion, from classical Gk., dim. of tapes (gen. tapetos) "tapestry, heavy fabric," probably from an Iranian source (cf. Pers. taftan, tabidan "to turn, twist"). The figurative use is first recorded 1581. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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