Tapestry

  • 11Tapestry — Apache Tapestry Тип Веб фреймворк Разработчик Apache Software Foundation Написана на Java Операционная система Кроссплатформенное ПО …

    Википедия

  • 12Tapestry —    The preeminent luxury industry in Brussels in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, tapestry weaving began early in the 14th century. First affiliated with the woolworkers guild, tapestry weavers formed an independent guild in 1447. The… …

    Historical Dictionary of Brussels

  • 13tapestry — [[t]tæ̱pɪstri[/t]] tapestries 1) N VAR A tapestry is a large piece of heavy cloth with a picture sewn on it using coloured threads. The seats of the chairs had been recovered in tapestry... He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth... On… …

    English dictionary

  • 14tapestry — noun (plural tries) Etymology: Middle English, modification of Anglo French tapicerie, from tapit, tapis carpet, hanging, from Greek tapētion, diminutive of tapēt , tapēs carpet Date: 15th century 1. a. a heavy handwoven reversible textile used… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 15tapestry — n. 1) to weave a tapestry 2) (misc.) (BE) life s rich tapestry * * * [ tæpɪstrɪ] (misc.) (BE) life s rich tapestry to weave a tapestry …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 16tapestry — UK [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] / US [ˈtæpəstrɪ] noun Word forms tapestry : singular tapestry plural tapestries 1) [countable/uncountable] a thick heavy cloth that has pictures or patterns woven into it. Tapestries are often hung on walls. 2) [singular] literary… …

    English dictionary

  • 17tapestry — [15] The ultimate source of tapestry is Greek tápēs ‘tapestry, woven carpet’. Its diminutive from tapētion was borrowed via late Latin tapētium into Old French as tapis ‘carpet’. From this was derived the verb tapisser ‘cover with a carpet’, and… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 18tapestry — /ˈtæpəstri / (say tapuhstree) noun (plural tapestries) 1. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which coloured threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, and used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc. 2. a machine woven… …

  • 19tapestry — [15] The ultimate source of tapestry is Greek tápēs ‘tapestry, woven carpet’. Its diminutive from tapētion was borrowed via late Latin tapētium into Old French as tapis ‘carpet’. From this was derived the verb tapisser ‘cover with a carpet’, and… …

    Word origins

  • 20tapestry — n. (pl. ies) 1 a a thick textile fabric in which coloured weft threads are woven to form pictures or designs. b embroidery imitating this, usu. in wools on canvas. c a piece of such embroidery. 2 events or circumstances etc. compared with a… …

    Useful english dictionary