(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 .