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

The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2020

The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2019

A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.

From New York Times • May 8, 2015

In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White