tapestried

[ tap-uh-streed ]

/ ˈtæp ə strid /

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furnished or covered with tapestries.

represented in tapestry, as a story.

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First recorded in 1620–30; tapestry + -ed², -ed³

un·tap·es·tried, adjective

He found himself in a wide hallway with lofty tapestried walls, where the light was the same twilight gloom.
The Devil in Iron|Robert E. Howard
All this rolled in a terrible panorama before Conan's consciousness as he crouched beside the tapestried wall.
The Devil in Iron|Robert E. Howard
Upon the other side of this room was another tapestried door-way similar to that through which he had just entered.
A Modern Aladdin|Howard Pyle
He rose to his feet, and feeling blindly in the blackness, came first to the table, and then to the tapestried wall beyond.
A Modern Aladdin|Howard Pyle

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