All 4 Uses of
tapestry
in
This Side of Paradise
- The great tapestries of trees had darkened to ghosts back at the last edge of twilight.†
Chpt 1.2tapestries = rug-like artworks -- often hung on a wall for display
- Shadows we loved and the patterns they covered the ground with Tapestries, mystical, faint in the breathless air.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Amory saw him about once a week, and together they gilded the ceiling of Tom's room and decorated the walls with imitation tapestry, bought at an auction, tall candlesticks and figured curtains.†
Chpt 1.2
- The old English hunting prints on the wall were Tom's, and the large tapestry by courtesy, a relic of decadent days in college, and the great profusion of orphaned candlesticks and the carved Louis XV chair in which no one could sit more than a minute without acute spinal disorders—Tom claimed that this was because one was sitting in the lap of Montespan's wraith—at any rate, it was Tom's furniture that decided them to stay.†
Chpt 2.2
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