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Another word for tapestry

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Noun
      1. A putting to death by hanging
      2. A method of execution whereby the person is dropped and suspended from a rope around the neck, resulting in death from severing of the spinal cord, strangulation, or other causes.
      3. Something hung on a wall, window, etc., as a drapery or tapestry
      1. A complex underlying structure:
      2. The texture of such material
      3. A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
      1. A piece or pieces of heavy fabric hanging straight in loose folds, used as a curtain.
      2. Cloth or clothing gracefully arranged in loose folds.
      3. Cloth; fabric.
      1. (Countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.
      2. (Uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
      3. (Countable) A piece of such material.
    See also:

    cloth

    curtain

    decoration

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Sentence Examples

  • The interior contains tapestry of the 16th century and other works of art.

  • In the interior there is some valuable tapestry of the 15th century, and other works of art.

  • Lanore, and the authority of the tapestry was vindicated.

  • Loom-weaving in its simplest form began with the Chilkats of Alaska, who hung the warp over a long pole, and wrought mythological figures into their gorgeous blankets by a process resembling tapestry work.

  • The Riddersal, a spacious room, is covered with tapestry representing the various battles of Christian V., and has at one end a' massive silver throne.

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