Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Woven or embroidered in the manner of tapestry.
  • Hung or covered with tapestry.

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  • adjective Decorated with tapestry.

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  • adjective hung or decorated with tapestry

Etymologies

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tapestry +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Then enter many a house of luxury, and enquire whether death in tapestried chambers and amid all the alleviations of earthly love and wealth, be

    Three Discourses 1865

  • They were in what was called the tapestried chamber, a room lined with needlework, done by dead fingers of long ago: those of some of the ladies whose portraits Inna was to see by-and-by in the grand staircase, and the gallery running round the hall.

    The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield

  • Her pillows are a good start, either alone or mixed in with other things, such as Jonathan Adler's tapestried banana pillow.

    Mad About Saffron Rita Konig 2011

  • He ended with a gesture to the tapestried bed in one corner of the room.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • He ended with a gesture to the tapestried bed in one corner of the room.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • He ended with a gesture to the tapestried bed in one corner of the room.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • A contemporary book describing François's funeral, which can be read in the original French here at the British Museum website, tells us that the body was placed on a bed of scarlet satin covered with rich embroidery in a richly tapestried chamber of the said palace and continously accompanied by his said servants and officials and by 48 religious of four orders...who said incessant masses, vigils, rosaries and other prayers.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • A contemporary book describing François's funeral, which can be read in the original French here at the British Museum website, tells us that the body was placed on a bed of scarlet satin covered with rich embroidery in a richly tapestried chamber of the said palace and continously accompanied by his said servants and officials and by 48 religious of four orders...who said incessant masses, vigils, rosaries and other prayers.

    More on François's Funeral Julianne Douglas 2008

  • They had been carpeted, tapestried, furnished from floor to ceiling, and always there had been a great fire burning on the hearth that made the room seem an elegant furnace.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Frank seated himself in the vacant throne of the Emperor, and extending his half-armed and robust figure on the golden cushions which were destined for Alexius, he indolently began to caress a large wolf-hound which had followed him, and which, feeling itself as much at ease as its master, reposed its grim form on the carpets of silk and gold damask, which tapestried the imperial foot-stool.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

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