(n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.
(v. t.) To furnish with an arras.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets have been filled with poster-sized photographs of a few of the 35,000 Allied soldiers from Britain, Australia, Canada and South Africa who died in the Battle of Arras , along with the flags of all the countries who took part, giving the town an unusually international feel.
(2) Ten minutes later the train stopped at Arras, where police arrested the shooter, described by French investigators as a 26-year-old from Morocco or of Moroccan origin, who was also armed with an automatic pistol and a box cutter.
(3) I'd written my graduate thesis and then a book on Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917.
(4) Whether Hugo is writing about the historical battle of Waterloo or the fictional journey to Arras, his scenes obey the same constraints: a mass of infinite detail, which coalesces to form a trap, an unstoppable destiny.
(5) It is the morning after the night before – when the voters of Arras closely matched the national result of the first round of the presidential election, giving Emmanuel Macron 24.6% and Marine Le Pen 21.49% – and residents and tourists who have come to honour the war dead are enjoying an early lunch in the pretty town hall square.
(6) The inspiration for the original came from Chilton's discovery of his father's name on a war memorial at Arras, in northern France.
(7) Donald Overall Donald Overall's father died of wounds near Arras, in 1917, leaving a widow and two young sons.
(8) Ezért az Európai Roma Jogok Központjával közösen arra vállalkozunk, hogy kiderítsük, milyen valójában az élet napjaink roma családjaiban a világ különböző pontjain.
(9) In Arras, stunned passengers waited to speak to police as the Red Cross distributed bottled water.
(10) "I don't want to exaggerate, but maybe 300,000, maybe more than that because there is no food in South Sudan and the rains start in this region in May, so people will come to Ethiopia to seek refuge," says Ayalew Aweke, deputy director of the Ethiopian Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (Arra).
(11) GS Chaplin, a military policeman who witnessed the execution at Arras on 31 October 1917, of Private JS Adamson, a 30-year-old soldier in the Cameron Highlanders, left this stark account in his journal.
(12) Arras and Shinnar conclude that "admirable goals should not be advanced by improper means."
(13) When I was married, my wife and I often went to Italy for our holidays, and my grandmother said to me one day, "When you're on your way to Italy, do you ever go near Arras?
(14) In the northern French town of Arras they have been commemorating the 100th anniversary of a first world war battle that resulted in almost 280,000 casualties.
(15) Unicef, together with Arra and the regional health bureaux, is supporting a mass immunisation campaign.
(16) Mayer writes that Charles’s court is “every bit as brutal as in the days when a twitching arras might signal a hidden assassin”.
(17) British troops go over the top during a daylight trench raid near Arras in March, 1917.
(18) It turned out that he didn't have a grave, but he was on the Arras memorial to the missing.
(19) A közelmúltban elterjedt történetek roma családokból kiemelt gyerekekről rámutattak arra, hogy a romák médiában való sztereotip bemutatásának elkerülése mennyire fontos.
(20) The soldiers who perished in the Battle of Loos in 1915 were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near Vendin-le-Vieil, north of Arras, in France .
Arris
Definition:
(n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.
Example Sentences:
(1) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
(2) "A bit disappointed in 'Arry," sighs Shooby Taylor.
(3) 3.34pm GMT "Have you cleverly photoshopped 'Arry's ead onto a colleague sitting next to you in your Guardian company car?"
(4) "In a 10 minute journey he managed to tell me: - has been running ‘Southampton lads around all day’, - He spoke to Osvaldo earlier and he is off to Juventus, Juventus just need to find some cash… - He’s ‘run Danny (Fox) from the training ground for his move to Birmingham this morning’, - he had a call earlier from ‘Arry about a potential deal, he couldn’t tell me who though - Man Utd had been planning a sensational £80m raid for Llalana, Shaw and Rodriguez - …but he told ‘Lukey’ he shouldn’t move to Man Utd until they had Champions League football.
(5) Updated at 7.07pm GMT 6.59pm GMT 'Arry's QPR are in talks to sign Jermaine Jenas from Spurs.
(6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
(7) IT'LL BE ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT At the time of writing, the biggest news this deadline day is that QPR manager 'Arry Redknapp didn't stop his Range Rover and roll down the window to say hello to Gail Davis on his way into work this morning.
(8) 'Arry Redknapp: "We played with pace, we got after them, we pressed them, there wasn't a weakness in the team."
(9) "Arry's never had any time for Samba, but he's affectionately regarded by QPR fans for being, well, bonkers.
(10) 7.05pm GMT Another former player 'Arry was after, Peter Crouch, is not signing for QPR.
(11) Defoe may be seen as one of 'Arry's boys but he could hardly sound more positive about André's ways.
(12) But thank you for the pic of 'Arry in the passenger seat, at least we now know what Kevin Bond does."
(13) Like Jamie Redknapp pointed out earlier, 'Arry is looking for a new Merson - a player with too much quality for that level and one you could build a team around."
(14) 'Arry Redknapp (BBC): "We played with pace, we got after them, we pressed them, there wasn't a weakness in the team."
(15) Fresh from ruffling a few feathers in the England camp , ’Arry fancies a slice of his old chum Rio Ferdinand , and according to the Daily Mail the 35-year-old will put pen to paper at Loftus Road in the next 24 hours.
(16) This week, anti-HS2 groups and an arry of councils began a challenge to the plans in the supreme court.
(17) Although the two men sat side by side as defendants, the gaze of both public and press fell not on the self-made Serbian-American tycoon Milan Mandaric, but on Henry James Redknapp , better known as Harry – or 'Arry, depending on your paper of choice.
(18) In 2012 Google sold Motorola Home, which made set-top boxes and cable modems, to Arris for $2.35bn.
(19) 9.28pm BST Andrew Johnson is staying out west Here's my colleague and QPR watcher Michael Hann on why a Selhurst Park return for Andrew Johnson is unlikley: "Can't see Arry letting him go.