arras

Example Sentences

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I saw Claudius and Polonius steal like silent ghosts behind an arras.

From Literature

Gawaine sat gloomily on one of the side benches placed there for petitioners, with his arms folded and his head against the arras.

From Literature

Staged moments — characters eavesdropping like Polonius behind his arras, lovers exchanging vows — baldly recall the genre’s cliches.

From Washington Post

In Mayer’s description, life around Charles was “every bit as brutal as in the days when a twitching arras might signal a hidden assassin.”

From Washington Post

But I don't like it when they jump up and down behind the arras like Polonius in Hamlet, trying to distract my attention from the poor old actors.

From The Guardian