tapestried

[ tap-uh-streed ]

adjective

1. furnished or covered with tapestries.
2. represented in tapestry, as a story.

Other Words From

• un·tapes·tried adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tapestried¹

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

Example Sentences

He found himself in a wide hallway with lofty tapestried walls, where the light was the same twilight gloom.

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All this rolled in a terrible panorama before Conan's consciousness as he crouched beside the tapestried wall.

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Upon the other side of this room was another tapestried door-way similar to that through which he had just entered.

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He rose to his feet, and feeling blindly in the blackness, came first to the table, and then to the tapestried wall beyond.

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The rooms into which this passage opened were the oldest of all—one in particular, tapestried all round, struck me greatly.

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