Meaning of Tapestry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
   countable, uncountable
2. Anything with variegated or complex details.
   broadly, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.”

“European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.”

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