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What does tapestry mean?

tapestry

something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs the tapestry of European history a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery

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The Bayeux Tapestry commemorates the Norman conquest of England in 1066 A.D.

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You promised us that you'd choose one of us for a husband as soon you finish weaving your tapestry.
One day your suitors will discover that this tapestry never ends only because you unravel at night the weaving you do in the daytime.
I was forced to promise I would marry one of them. We should thank the gods that they agreed to wait until the tapestry is finished. Let us hope they never discover my secret.
And that is why this tapestry increases each day and is undone each night.
Dirty spy! You have revealed the secret of the tapestry.
I know of your trick with the tapestry, Penelope.
Yes, like the tapestry. - I do not accept this.
God's silver tapestry spread across the night.
You see, Sigbritt and Charlotta made a tapestry and Angelica baked a cake, and Anna has painted a really good picture, and Kristina and Birgitta wrote a song that they'll sing to him.
But, on the other hand, there are small fragments of tapestry that can be altered.
In God's name how long does it take to make a tapestry; and it's mediocre beyond belief.
No. First a tapestry, then a monastery.
Find the best tapestry-maker.
Life is drab and grey tapestry and some people don't mind.
But I do remember a tapestry in the hall with ships and islands on it.
It was what they call half-timbered, with tapestry brick underneath.
But you've been working too long on this tapestry which you started years ago and which never ends. That's right. It's the memory of Ulysses which prevents me finishing it.
We should thank the gods that they agreed to wait until the tapestry is finished.
You won't have long to wait, my friend, now that we know the trick of the tapestry.
This is a trick. - Like the tapestry, Penelope.
The new tapestry will be tightly woven, Mr Elliott.
I wasn't referring to the tapestry.
The umbrella, the tapestry.
The tapestry!
Think of your careers; think of life's rich tapestry that lies before you.
You shouldn't look at people in such fashion. they are like two black holes. burned by torches in a tapestry of Tyre.
Well, not anymore, that is. Look at this tapestry.
How many thousands of years since the priests sealed the inner chamber and draped this tapestry across the entrance?
Tapestry from the 18th century.
Another thread in the tapestry of your life.
A sort of Bayeux tapestry with footnotes.
The events were noted in the Bayeux tapestry a kind of newspaper of the day.
The ancient Greeks imagined the course of human events to be a tapestry created by three goddesses: the Fates.
Our own planet is only a tiny part of the vast cosmic tapestry a starry fabric of worlds yet untold.

News and current affairs

In almost every field of life, Muslims have been an integral part of the European tapestry.
Indians are more part of Africa's social tapestry than are the Chinese, a fabric that has been strengthened through opportunity and adversity through the ages.
Egypt's fears are mainly of Sudan's disintegration into a chaotic tapestry of mini-states controlled by warlords and plunged into lawlessness and bloody tribal feuds.
If anything, the DNA comparison underestimates the profound similarity of the human and ape bodies in the great tapestry of nature.
Our technologically advanced civilization - replete with remarkable tools and notable headaches - owes everything to a tapestry of cosmic and planetary history.

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