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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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Our collective lives are like a tapestry of the adorable and the dreadful thrown together, and there’s no way to untangle the two.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

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

For Osborne, the tapestry tells a story of destruction and invasion, but also of two nations, two peoples, forever entwined.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

“But it would be churlish to begrudge Basil’s requests. After all, he did recapture our tapestry from Cluny. It was a very daring deed.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Conceived as designs for tapestries, they are also, like so many of Matisse’s preparatory studies, self-sufficient artworks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

They select complementary textual threads from vast data warehouses and weave them together to create tapestries of prose.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

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

They traded their yarns and cloth and tapestries for grain and potatoes and carrots and onions.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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 Percival Lowell




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