All 7 Uses of
tapestry
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- He turned them out, and, having thrown his hat and cape on the table, passed through the library towards the door of his bedroom, a large octagonal chamber on the ground floor that, in his new-born feeling for luxury, he had just had decorated for himself, and hung with some curious Renaissance tapestries that had been discovered stored in a disused attic at Selby Royal.†
Chpt 7
- On the wall behind it was hanging the same ragged Flemish tapestry, where a faded king and queen were playing chess in a garden, while a company of hawkers rode by, carrying hooded birds on their gauntleted wrists.†
Chpt 10
- Then he turned his attention to embroideries, and to the tapestries that performed the office of frescoes in the chill rooms of the Northern nations of Europe.†
Chpt 11
- Over and over again Dorian used to read this fantastic chapter, and the two chapters immediately following, in which, as in some curious tapestries or cunningly-wrought enamels, were pictured the awful and beautiful forms of those whom Vice and Blood and Weariness had made monstrous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife, and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled; Pietro Barbi, the Venetian, known as Paul the…†
Chpt 11
- A faded Flemish tapestry, a curtained picture, an old Italian cassone, and an almost empty bookcase—that was all that it seemed to contain, besides a chair and a table.†
Chpt 13
- If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind, he shook.†
Chpt 18
- She is a charming woman, and wants to consult you about some tapestries she is thinking of buying.†
Chpt 19 *
Definition:
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(tapestry as in: the tapestry hangs in the museum) rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display