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

She sits next to an empty hearth in a big tapestried chair, the kind you'd find in a ladies' sitting room.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland