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rug-like artwork — often hung on a wall for display
- The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colours still unfaded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer.Chapter 9 — The Leech (79% in)
tapestry = rug-like artwork
- He entered the accustomed room, and looked around him on its books, its windows, its fireplace, and the tapestried comfort of the walls, with the same perception of strangeness that had haunted him throughout his walk from the forest dell into the town and thitherward.Chapter 20 — The Minister in a Maze (76% in)
tapestried = decorated with rug-like artwork
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