TAPESTRY


Meaning of TAPESTRY in English

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.

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