TAPESTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tapestry mean? 

• TAPESTRY (noun)
  The noun TAPESTRY has 3 senses:

1. something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy

2. a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery

3. a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs

  Familiarity information: TAPESTRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAPESTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the tapestry of European history

Hypernyms ("tapestry" is a kind of...):

complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tapestry; tapis

Hypernyms ("tapestry" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arras; tapestry

Hypernyms ("tapestry" is a kind of...):

hanging; wall hanging (decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window)

Meronyms (parts of "tapestry"):

edging (border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug))

 Context examples 

Mother will keep me to my chamber for a month, and make me work at the tapestry of the nine bold knights.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If you travel with your romantic partner/spouse, the trip you take in the last week of March (from March 24 onward) will create a tapestry sewn with golden threads that you will remember forever.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I saw a room I remembered to have seen before, the day Mrs. Fairfax showed me over the house: it was hung with tapestry; but the tapestry was now looped up in one part, and there was a door apparent, which had then been concealed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He looked up at the ceiling, back at the closed door, and round at the stiff folds of motionless tapestry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And now you are going too, who could carry my thoughts out of these gray walls, and raise my mind above tapestry and distaffs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will not your mind misgive you when you find yourself in this gloomy chamber—too lofty and extensive for you, with only the feeble rays of a single lamp to take in its size—its walls hung with tapestry exhibiting figures as large as life, and the bed, of dark green stuff or purple velvet, presenting even a funereal appearance?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Very fine and rich it was, with beams painted and gilt, wheels and spokes carved in strange figures, and over all an arched cover of red and white tapestry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)