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词汇 tapestry
释义 tapestry
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈtæp.ɪ.stri/ us /ˈtæp.ə.stri/
a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different coloured threads onto a special type of strong cloth: (手织的)花毯;绒绣;织锦
None of the artists had designed tapestries before.
There were rich vases as tall as a man and tapestries hung from the rough stone.
 
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something that is made of many different parts:
The instruments blend together, weaving tapestries of sound, while the pace of the music changes constantly.
They all have contributed to the rich tapestry of mankind.
Her next novel is about a set of tapestries hanging in the Musee Cluny in Paris.
In the chair crouched the figure of Vanessa Dersingham, stitching a tapestry .
The end result may best be described as a tapestry woven of fragments.
We represent the woven tapestry of Canadian society.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Knitting & sewing
appliqué
appliquéd
Aran
Bargello
baste
handknit
handknitted
hank
hem
intarsia
quilting
reknit
resew
rib
run something up
running stitch
sampler
seam
sew
stitch

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tapestry | American Dictionary


tapestry
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈtæp·ə·stri/
a strong cloth with colored threads woven into it to create a picture or design, usually hung on a wall or used to cover furniture:
[ C ]Mitchell creates tapestries that depict river landscapes.

Examples of tapestry


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The authors see language acquisition as part of "an elegant tapestry of multiplicity" (p. 87).
In this tapestry are woven together threads representing pedagogy, assessment, industry requirements and practitioner sophistication.
The organisation of the essay follows several threads over time - thereby showing the 'tapestry' of forces at play.
As such it is a brilliant and richly-woven tapestry, full of insight and fresh ideas.
They are simply nonexistent in her book, a total cultural omission leaving a regrettable hole in the social tapestry she attempts to weave.
The influence of entrepreneurs was even stronger in the tapestry sector.
But these are small blemishes in a tapestry that is both carefully designed and densely woven.
At some clubs, indeed, the dancers brought tapestry cushions embroidered with their names.
Why not take the tapestry of networked music to this next level, interconnecting not only people and machines, but entire environments?
To cover all the issues across a tapestry of countries with different cultures and economies as well as different religions is no easy task.
The 'tapestry' layout of these houses is a play between individual and overall form.
Culture is an intricate tapestry that is difficult, if not impossible, to define.
The background, a huge floral tapestry, is an explosion of colour.
The book brings together work by fifteen anthropologists, historians and indigenous intellectuals to explore the rich ' tapestry of la ecuatorianidad ' (p. 360).
They taught me to see the pattern in the tapestry of things in nature, farming and customary rights that had formed the coastal landscape.
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