Thesaurus: tapestry

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1. n. 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.
2. v. t. To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
3. n. something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy
4. n. a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
5. n. a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs
6. 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. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet. 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.
7. A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen orother thread by hand, the designs being usually more or lesspictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. Theterm is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestrycarpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which thewarp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in thecloth.-- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.
8. n:100 n. something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs n. a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery n. a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs