| 单词 | tapestry |
| 释义 | tapestry (once / 1023 pages) n A tapestry is a picture woven into cloth. It's a decorative rug you hang on the wall, with detailed images or designs on it. Some tapestries, like the famous Unicorn Tapestries, tell stories with their pictures. Weaving an image into cloth is a brilliant idea — it makes art accessible and portable. And a tapestry offers something a painting can't: warmth. Think of those cold castle walls in medieval Europe, add a tapestry, and you're warmer already. You can use tapestry to describe anything that's multi-layered and complex, like the tapestry of life in a rural town, or the tapestry of your family history, or the tapestry of plot and character in your favorite novel. WORD FAMILYtapestry: tapestries USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, she found a much more intricate tapestry: 2 percent North African, 13 percent west Asian, 2 percent Jewish. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) The tapestries are embroidered with particular stitches, some of which are now lost. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) But to Ms. Martin, it’s no less than “an important piece of the overall tapestry of American English in the early 21st century.” New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1n a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs Syn|Hyper arras hanging, wall hanging decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window 2n a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery Syn|Hyper tapis cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers 3n something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs the tapestry of European history Hyper complexity, complexness the quality of being intricate and compounded |
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