tapestry
/ˈtæpəstɹi/ noun C1- A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
- Anything with variegated or complex details.
Plural tapestries
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The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs.
Inside it was all panelling and tapestry and half-effaced old pictures, a house of shadows and mystery.
Splendid paintings by the first masters were ranged against the walls, intermingled with magnificent trophies of war, while heavy curtains of costly tapestry were suspended before the different doors of the room.
As Franz spoke, he heard the sound of a door turning on its hinges, and almost immediately afterwards the tapestry was drawn aside, and the owner of all these riches stood before the two young men.
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