Tapestry Definition

tăpĭ-strē
tapestried, tapestries, tapestrying
noun
tapestries
A heavy cloth woven by hand or machinery with decorative designs and pictures and used as a wall hanging, furniture covering, etc.
Webster's New World
A cloth embroidered with designs or scenes, especially one made in the Middle Ages.
American Heritage
Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth.
The tapestry of world history.
American Heritage

A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

Wiktionary

(by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.

Wiktionary
verb
To decorate as with a tapestry.
Webster's New World
To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Tapestry

Noun

Singular:
tapestry
Plural:
tapestries

Origin of Tapestry

  • Middle English tapiceri, tapstri from Old French tapisserie from tapisser to cover with carpet from tapis carpet from Greek tapētion diminutive of tapēs perhaps of Iranian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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