Both Uses of
tapestry
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking: and for thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries.†
Scene 2.1 *tapestries = rug-like artworks -- often hung on a wall for display
- By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers.†
Scene 2.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(tapestry as in: the tapestry hangs in the museum) rug-like artwork -- often hung on a wall for display
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(2)
(tapestry as in: the tapestry of my life) something consisting of many interconnected, non-mechanical parts