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tapestry

[tap-uh-stree] / ˈtæp ə stri /
NOUN
curtain
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In the process, McElwee creates a patchwork tapestry, comprised of vignettes across time.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

"It's our responsibility, this generation's responsibility, to do what previous generations have done, which is look after this tapestry so it's there for all time".

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

It is the first time the tapestry has been seen in England for 1,000 years.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Lewis told me there are still so many mysteries about the tapestry.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

But stitch one small thing to another small thing and another, and eventually you have a tapestry as big as the world.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

They select complementary textual threads from vast data warehouses and weave them together to create tapestries of prose.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Highlights include the first painting he completed entirely on his own, as well as tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

Pairing paintings, tapestries and sculptures with songs and sound clips, these museums have become unlikely social-media stars.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Inside, more than 150 works and objects - including paintings, sculptures, films, tapestries and photos - map the astonishing breadth of Husain's career, offering visitors a rare window into the artist's late-life reflections and inspirations.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

On the walls between the arches hung tapestries woven with scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, tales of gods and humans transformed by love.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.

From Washington Post Jan. 7, 2020

The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2019

Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2019

A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.

From New York Times May 8, 2015

She sits next to an empty hearth in a big tapestried chair, the kind you'd find in a ladies' sitting room.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Trees vaulted the way tapestrying it with their leaves, between which one caught peeps at the sea, a shimmer of blue through a shimmer of green.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival




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