tap·es·try (tăp'ĭ-strē)
n., pl., -tries.

1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.
2. Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth: the tapestry of world history.

tr.v., -es·tried (-ĭ-strēd), -es·try·ing, -es·tries (-ĭ-strēz).

1. To hang or decorate with tapestry.
2. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.

[Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek tapētion, diminutive of tapēs, perhaps of Iranian origin.]

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