| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tap·es·try |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t p  -str |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. tap·es·tries
1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture. 2. Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth: the tapestry of world history. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: tap·es·tried (--strd), tap·es·try·ing, tap·es·tries (--strz)
1. To hang or decorate with tapestry. 2. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek taption, diminutive of taps, perhaps of Iranian origin.
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