tapestried

American  

[tap-uh-streed] / ˈtæp ə strid /

adjective

1. furnished or covered with tapestries.

2. represented in tapestry, as a story.

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Other Word Forms

• untapestried
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of tapestried

First recorded in 1620–30; tapestry + -ed ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

There is an early example in Sir Walter Scott’s Tapestried Chamber, which was told to him by Miss Anna Seward. 

From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Lang, Andrew

I therefore caused the Tapestried Chamber, as we call it, to be opened; and, without destroying its air of antiquity, I had such new articles of furniture placed in it as became the modern times.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

But no better example can be found of Scott's command of the mysterious as an element in fiction than this short story of "The Tapestried Chamber."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

Chancellor was lodged in the great chamber on the southern side of the courtyard, a room which we called the Tapestried Chamber, and in which tradition said that King Henry the Sixth had once slept.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

Even from Scott's work we can detach 'Wandering Willie's Tale,' or 'The Tapestried Chamber,' or the study of Effie Deans in prison, or of Jeanie Deans before the Queen.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various