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tapestry as in: the tapestry hangs in the museum
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The Lady and the Unicorn is the modern title given to the six tapestries that are considered to be among the greatest artworks of the Middle Ages.
tapestries = rug-like artworks -- often hung on a wall for display
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The tapestry depicts the building of the Notre Dame Cathedral.tapestry = a rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn't look at your notes or clues, honest. (source)tapestry = made of rug-like fabric with artwork
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She had finished the tapestry, and it hung behind her on the wall. (source)tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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Harry yelled, and the four of them sprinted down the gallery, not looking back to see whether Filch was following — they swung around the doorpost and galloped down one corridor then another, Harry in the lead, without any idea where they were or where they were going — they ripped through a tapestry and found themselves in a hidden passageway, (source)tapestry = a heavy fabric with a woven picture that is hung on a wall for display
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'Well,' asked the wise man, 'did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall?' (source)tapestries = rug-like artworks
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She was as pleased as a child to push with her finger the large tapestried door.† (source)
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The walls stood bare, save for a single tapestry with sewn-in beads forming the words Allah-u—akbar. (source)tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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On the walls hung sixteenth-century tapestries and several religious paintings. (source)tapestries = rug-like artworks
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'Throughout the whole of Cheapside, from every penthouse and window, hung banners and streamers; and the richest carpets, stuffs, and cloth-of-gold tapestried the streets—specimens of the great wealth of the stores within; and the splendour of this thoroughfare was equalled in the other streets, and in some even surpassed.'† (source)
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A huge golden tapestry that reminded me of the drop cloths Dad used at home was hung up against a wall and spilled across the floor. (source)tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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Because of Duffield's pressing schedule the little occasion must not take much time, cannot even include a meal together: a brief sightseeing fling at the university with its resplendent Collegium Maius; then Wawel Castle, the tapestries, a pause for a cup of tea, perhaps a tiny side trip elsewhere, but that is all. (source)tapestries = rug-like artworks hung on walls
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The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam sat in a tapestried chair watching mother and son approach.† (source)
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Was it a pretty tapestry? (source)tapestry = rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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tapestry as in: the tapestry of my life
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When I look at the tapestry of my life, I feel like a guardian angel was helping to weave the right threads together.
tapestry = something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts
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There are some loose threads in my childhood, but were they to be pulled out, the tapestry of my life would unravel.
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Happiness was the main component in my life now, the dominant pattern in the tapestry. (source)
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And out of what seems to be a huge mess, Papa weaves a magnificent tapestry. (source)
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His shaved head, bare chest, and makeup-smeared face had been unveiled as a terrifying tapestry of tattoos. (source)tapestry = something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts
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The classmates of the five dead children had transformed the pavement into a tapestry of spray-painted eulogies. (source)
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The third group was told that the donations would go to Rokia, as in the first group, but this time her own hunger was presented as part of a background tapestry of global hunger, with some statistics thrown in. (source)
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Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst. (source)
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He had done it; she accepted the tapestry of lies. (source)
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A thread of silver in a tapestry of night. (source)
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Bailey took it upon himself to answer every question, and from a corner of his lively imagination wove a tapestry of entertainment for them that I was sure was as foreign to him as it was to me. (source)
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I know she is covered in fresh welts that will soon blend into the tapestry of old scars woven into her flesh. (source)
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It's a tapestry of silver and copper and colored light. (source)
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Music for me at this moment was almost so much in itself a reason for being that had I been deprived too long of this or that wrenching harmony, or some miraculously stitched tapestry of the baroque, I would have unhesitatingly committed dangerous crimes. (source)
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