tapestry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs
    • the tapestry of European history
  2. noun a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
    tapis.
  3. noun a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
    arras.

WordNet

Tap"es*try noun
Etymology
F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. , . Cf. Tapis, Tippet.
Wordforms
plural Tapestries
Definitions
  1. A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
Tap"es*try transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tapestried ; present participle & verbal noun Tapestrying
Definitions
  1. To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
    The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.

Webster 1913