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1. Tapestry
   A weft-faced fabric, often with slits where colours meet.
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2. tapestry
   [n] - something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity 2. [n] - a heavy textile with a woven design 3. [n] - a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
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3. tapestry
   Ornamental textile into which a pattern or pictorial scene has been handwoven. The foundation of a tapestry is known as the warp, and is usually made of linen or wool. The tapestry design is formed...
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4. tapestry
   A patterned carpet woven by the single-pile Wilton process,in which a warp,printed before weaving,is used to produce the design.When the pile is cut,the carpet is known as tapestry velvet. Category: Various industries and crafts • A cut-pile carpet woven from a printed-pile warp or singl...
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5. Tapestry
   Tap'es·try noun ; plural Tapestries . [ French tapissere , from tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, from tapis a carpet, carpeting, Late Latin tapecius , from Latin tapete carpet, tape...
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6. Tapestry
   Tap'es·try transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tapestried ; present participle & verbal noun Tapestrying .] To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. « The Trosachs woun...
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7. tapestry
   Origin: F. Tapissere, fr. Tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. Tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. Tapecius, fr. L. Tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr,. Cf. Tapis, Tippet. ... A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or...
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8. tapestry
   arras noun a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
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9. tapestry
   noun something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; `the tapestry of European history`
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10. tapestry
    noun a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
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11. Tapestry
    • (v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. • (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
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12. tapestry
    woven decorative fabric, the design of which is built up in the course of weaving. Broadly, the name has been used for almost any heavy material, ... [11 related articles]
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13. Tapestry
    A heavy fabric incorporated with intricate design or imagery, used as wall hung decoration or covering.
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14. Tapestry
    Large tapestries usually portraying historical events, legends and figures. They were edged with decorative borders woven in wool, silk, gold and silver thread. The Italian word arazzo is derived from the name of the French city, Arras, once one of the most important centres for cloth production.
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15. Tapestry
    a closely woven figured fabric with a compound structure in which a pattern is developed by the use of coloured yarns in the warp or in the weft or both. A fine binder warp and weft may be incorporated. The fabric is woven on jacquard looms and is normally used for upholstery.
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16. Tapestry
    Rich looking fabric similar in appearance to the heavy, hand-woven designs used in making curtains and upholstery. Tapestry prints are printed with a pattern to appear as tapestry fabric. Normally heavy weight and often used for structured garments such as corsets. Tapestry fabric can be expensive.
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17. tapestry
    tapestry, hand-woven fabric of plain weave made without shuttle or drawboy, the design of weft threads being threaded into the warp with fingers or a bobbin. The name has been extended to cover a variety of heavy materials, such as imitation tapestries woven on Jacquard looms, tapestry carpets, and ...
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18. Tapestry
    A tapestry is a thick hand-woven fabric, usually of wool, with a pictorial or ornamental design formed by the weft-threads.
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19. tapestry
    Ornamental textile into which a pattern or pictorial scene has been handwoven. The foundation of a tapestry is known as the warp, and is usually made of linen or wool. The tapestry design is formed by the weft, different coloured strands of yarn, such as wool or silk, that are woven through the warp ...
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20. TAPESTRY
    A type of weaving in which the crosswise yarns are manipulated freely to create patterned or pictorial effects.
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21. Tapestry
    `Tapestry` is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the warp) and those parallel to the width (called the weft); the warp threads are set up under tension on a loom, and the weft thread is passe...
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22. Tapestry
    (album) Name = Tapestry --> --><ref name="bill">http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?tag=chscr1#/charts/billboard-200?begin=121&order=position--> In terms of time on the charts, it ranks fifth overall and in terms of length on the charts for solo musical acts it ran...
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23. Tapestry
    (radio) "Tapestry" refers to two different radio programs. The current one is a Canadian radio program, which airs Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. on CBC Radio One. The program, hosted by Mary Hynes, airs documentary and interview programming relating to spirituality, faith and relig...
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24. Tapestry
    (DHT) `Tapestry` is a distributed hash table which provides a decentralized object location, routing, and multicasting infrastructure for distributed applications. It is composed of a peer-to-peer overlay network offering efficient, scalable, self-repairing, location-aware routing to nearby r...
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25. Tapestry
    (Don McLean album) `Tapestry` is the name of Don McLean`s 1970 debut album. The album was originally released by Mediarts Records but was re-launched in 1971 by United Artists after United Artists` purchase of Mediarts. The album was produced by Jerry Corbitt of The Youngbloods. Track ...
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