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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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Hadyn Blakeston said he felt like he was on a "conveyor belt" while moving along the tapestry.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

"It's quite a processional experience because people have to go bit by bit through the tapestry," Lewis said.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

The tapestry has been inspiring artists since the Middle Ages.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Animations projected on the wall accompany the tapestry, zooming in on details and key events and characters in the artwork, which is replete with gore and drama.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Hadel glared at the tapestry but continued with her spinning, and as she fell back into the rhythm, her threads lightened back to lavender.

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

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

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

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

Some jackets and skirts featured gold fabric and tapestries.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

Kings, in those days, took their household tapestries with them on campaign, which was a measure of the kind of camps they had.

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

She sits next to an empty hearth in a big tapestried chair, the kind you'd find in a ladies' sitting room.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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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