tapestry

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 tă'pəstrē

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. countable,uncountable
    — Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
  2. Anything with variegated or complex details. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
动词 v.
  1. To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry. intransitive,transitive
    — We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues […]

词形变化

tapestries plural tapestries present,singular,third-person tapestrying participle,present tapestried participle,past tapestried past

词汇关系

衍生词
be part of life's rich tapestry tapester tapestry beetle tapestrylike tapestry moth
相关词
tapetum tapetum lucidum

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
词源 2
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
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