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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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The machine patted me on the head by noting that I had avoided words like profound and tapestry and only once indulged in telling all of you “Here’s the thing.”

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

“When you get a brand-new piece of music, as we did with ‘The Dead Dance,’ you’re creating the physical tapestry for this song for the future,” Baker said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

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

Matthias pointed to the figure woven into the tapestry.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

We are put in charge of making our own way, through tapestries and tea sets, past ancient jug and contemporary sphinx, without heavy-handed authoritative direction.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 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

Small museums, looking to raise their profiles and educate the masses, are turning their paintings, sculptures and tapestries into the unlikely stars of TikTok microdramas.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

Eric led them through the darkened corridors—where every other torch had been extinguished and the tapestries looked woven from black silk—and back to the courtyard they’d come through.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.

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

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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