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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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The wildlife trusts believe "this rich tapestry of wildlife could be richer still" if more species return over the next 10 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Smith’s protagonist is Mignon Langnas, whose letters and diaries provide a human thread in a notably inhumane tapestry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The tapestry holds a particular position in British public consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the reality is that it is impossible to unweave the tapestry of football history during that time and since - too much has happened and there are too many indirect consequences.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Their bodies became a collective, a tapestry of wing and wind that fluttered with life, transforming into the figure of a young woman with dark hair and dark eyes.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

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

Thousands of them rustled behind the tapestries, making the woven scenes move like wind.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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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