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tapestry
in
The Once and Future King
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- Kings, in those days, took their household tapestries with them on campaign, which was a measure of the kind of camps they had.
Book 4 *tapestries = rug-like artworks -- often hung on a wall for display
- Queen Elaine was sitting in the solar, where she had been doing tapestry work, and her two guests were sitting on either side of her.†
Book 3
- It was quite dark, with tapestry over the windows, and he had no headache because his constitution was good.†
Book 3
- Above his head, the coloured beam of light fell upon a small and primitive piece of tapestry—a picture of some knights in chain mail, with nose guards on their painted helmets, chasing a boar.†
Book 3
- They were making boudoirs for her, and taking the tapestries out of his bachelor bedroom to go in hers, and polishing the silver, and sending to the nearest neighbours for the loan of gold plate.†
Book 3
- Picture the insides of those ancient churches— not the grey and gutted interiors to which we are accustomed —but insides blazing with colour, plastered with frescoes in which all the figures stood on tip-toe, fluttering with tapestry or with brocades from Bagdad.†
Book 4
- Now they were filling with furniture made by the joiner, instead of the carpenter; now their walls rippled doorless with the flexible gaieties of Arras, tapestries like that of the Jousts of St. Denis which, although covering more than four hundred square yards, had been woven in less than three years, such was the ardour of its creation.†
Book 4
- If you look closely in a ruined castle even nowadays, you can sometimes find the hooks from which these flashing tapestries were hung.†
Book 4
- He had stopped in the curtained doorway, his pale hand with the royal signet gleaming in the darkness as it held the tapestry aside—and then, without eavesdropping for a moment, he had let the tapestry fall and disappeared.†
Book 4
- He had stopped in the curtained doorway, his pale hand with the royal signet gleaming in the darkness as it held the tapestry aside—and then, without eavesdropping for a moment, he had let the tapestry fall and disappeared.†
Book 4
- The faded things which we see today bear no relationship to the bright tapestry which made the Justice Room a painted box.†
Book 4
- A door on the other side of the tapestry squeaked on its hinges.†
Book 4
- The afternoon sunlight streamed in at the casements, illuminating the tapestry of Bathsheba, as she sat with her two round breasts in a tub on the battlements of a castle, which seemed to have been built from children's bricks—picking out David, on the roof next door, with a crown and a beard and a harp—rippling from a hundred horses, parallel lances, helms and suits of armour, which thronged the battle scene in which Uriah was killed.†
Book 4
- Lifting the tapestry of the doorway with a pale hand, the ghostly creature in half-armour, its unarmed elbow in a sling, stood on the threshold.†
Book 4
- In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.†
Book 4
- The cube of tapestry, an empty vase before, began to flower with them.†
Book 4
- They boo'ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones.†
Book 4
- The tapestries swirled out, the rushes stood on end, the fire gushed smoke, and Lancelot's voice embedded in the wind, shouted: "Bors!†
Book 4
- It was a sumptuous interior, what with the royal tapestries—Uriah was there, still in the article of bisection—and the couch strewn deep with furs, and the flashing candles.†
Book 4
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)