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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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In the process, McElwee creates a patchwork tapestry, comprised of vignettes across time.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

There has been alarm from some, particularly in France, that the tapestry was too precious to move from there to the UK.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Lewis told me there are still so many mysteries about the tapestry.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Osborne praised the "French and British experts" who transported the tapestry from Bayeux Museum in Normandy to London.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

There’s a small tapestry that hangs on the wall of the front room and that’s it.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

The Battle of Pavia, a pivotal encounter during a series of wars fought for control of the Italian peninsula between 1494 and 1559, was vividly portrayed in seven huge tapestries presented to Charles in 1531.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The facility will include state-of-the-art, climate-controlled storage for the museum’s more than 250,000-object collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, tapestries and Cold War-era ephemera from the Soviet Union, East Bloc, China and other countries.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

The human body is everywhere in painting, sculpture, tapestries and photography, implicit in the metalwork of jewelry and armor.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Highlights include the first painting he completed entirely on his own, as well as tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

The tapestries swirled out, the rushes stood on end, the fire gushed smoke, and Lancelot’s voice embedded in the wind, shouted: “Bon! Bleoberis! Demaris!”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.

From Washington Post Jan. 7, 2020

The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2019

Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2019

A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.

From New York Times May 8, 2015

It was always cold in the tower, for all the carpets and the tapestried hangings and the rich furred clothing and the broad marble fireplaces they had.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Trees vaulted the way tapestrying it with their leaves, between which one caught peeps at the sea, a shimmer of blue through a shimmer of green.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival




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