Tapestries

Word TAPESTRIES
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Definitions and meanings of "Tapestries"

What do we mean by tapestries?

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

(by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.

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The word "tapestries" in example sentences

I also really enjoyed the Cluny Museum (Museum de Moyen Ages) which is a must if you are interested in tapestries (and it was almost completed devoid of tourists last time I was there). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Zapotec village of Teotitlán del Valle near the city of Oaxaca, known for its exquisite handwoven wool tapestries, is one of the oldest human settlements in México. ❋ Unknown (2006)

With the passing of time, affluent and cultured owners acquired Italian bronzes, stained glass, Gobelin tapestries, and paintings by El Greco, Goya, and Murillo. ❋ Unknown (2001)

It is sometimes given the misleading name of tapestry, perhaps owing to hangings of all kinds being called tapestries, whether loom-woven, worked with the needle, or painted. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

Ms. Zygas, citing security reasons, would not say why the altarpiece and the tapestries are the only two artworks in the Cloisters that are protected by motion sensors. ❋ By CHAD SMITH (2010)

Most spoke wonderingly of the way that houses these days were full of luxuries such as tapestries and chimneys. ❋ Kathryn Hughes (2010)

And at the end of the chapter which describes his "night under the pines," he speaks of the "tapestries" and "the inimitable ceiling" and "the view which I command from the windows." ❋ Unknown (1899)

Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

WASHINGTON -- A national memorial to former president and World War II general D.ight D. Eisenhower -- that still needs millions of dollars to complete -- would include eight-story tall columns and metal "tapestries" of photos, according to plans announced Thursday in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Transformations: Recent Contemporary African Acquisitions" leans toward the art-star model, with two of the enormous - and enormously popular - "tapestries" by El Anatsui, painstakingly assembled from discarded metal liquor-bottle seals into shimmering postcolonial chain-mail dragon skins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"tapestries" of foliage designs in soft greens and tans and browns on a dark blue ground that are very pleasing. ❋ Elsie De Wolfe (N/A)

Known as “the Castle” and “the Palace,” they featured luxurious rugs, tapestries, art work, and crystal chandeliers. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

You nod and smile with every paragraph, and wish the story would unroll into a novel, breaking the boundaries of the book, streaming in gaudy tapestries, out through the door and into the blue wide yonder - to the place where awards are distributed and happy critics fall over themselves to lavish praise (this story did not win any awards, by the way) Why am I so excited about this? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tempting nest-boxes could help to preserve tapestries and furnishings from damage ❋ Jamie Doward (2010)

The uric acid in their droppings destroys valuable tapestries, stains brass and ruins pews. ❋ Jamie Doward (2010)

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