(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(2) The company launched in 1995 with an idea for a range of “colonial-inspired” tapestry bags, designed by Cox and sold by Liberty, Harrods and the General Trading Company.
(3) There was a lift to the top floor to see the remaining tapestry, but even here, life was not straightforward.
(4) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
(5) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(6) This is at once a work of advocacy, rhetoric and literature, a vital thread in the tapestry of American prose.
(7) The first illustrates the impact of an unusual exposure source experienced by a female art conservator while restoring an antique Peruvian tapestry from the Chancay Period (A.D. 1000-1500).
(8) She has a bedroom symbolising each of her marriages, with huge tapestries detailing the humorous, intricate life Grayson has conceived for her, and an entrance hall described pretty accurately as a chapel space.
(9) I think we need a full explanation of that without delay.” Johnson had earlier described the correspondence between Serco CEO Rupert Soames and the prime minister, which took place while Cameron’s negotiations over a new EU deal were still ongoing, as “the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux tapestry”, adding: “It makes us look like a banana republic.” Elsewhere on Tuesday, Cameron suggested in a speech that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis , was probably in favour of Britain leaving the EU.
(10) It’s about a slow unfolding of this tapestry that we’ve woven.
(11) The American psychiatrists' handbook DSM-5 goes further in this direction than ever, turning life's rich tapestry of oddballs into a grid of disorders.
(12) The tapestries would frame the space and create a sort of open-air building, though members of the Eisenhower family have gone so far to protest that the metal scrims remind them of Communist imagery or chain-link fences at a Nazi concentration camp.
(13) If you want an analogy, all the colours are present right across the tapestry.
(14) So we spoke in her bedroom, where she sat in pristine nightgown and shawl, in a rocking chair by the gold-curtained window, surrounded by a basket of tapestry wool (she was stitching a complex pattern for an evening bag), a walker, and a half-read Arnold Bennett novel, preparation for her book club – "Do you know, he's surprisingly good."
(15) At the moment, however, the six tapestries are on show at Temple Newsam House in Yorkshire, a Tudor-Jacobean mansion owned by Leeds city council, one and a half miles from the nearest train station and accessible by bus only in the summer months.
(16) It is inequality that is disfiguring the housing market, with house prices out of reach for first-time buyers as waiting lists for social housing extend to 1.7 million, and a new class of multi-millionaire buy-to-let landlords have become an unwelcome part of the social tapestry.
(17) He features in many of Perry’s works, from his first tapestry Vote Alan Measles for God (2008), in which the red, roaring teddy brandishes a suicide-belt atop the Twin Towers, to an intricate other-worldly shrine in which Alan Measles sits likes a Hindu deity.
(18) They were men and women; young and old; black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American – woven together like a great American tapestry, sharing in the dream that our Nation would one day make real the promise of liberty, equality, and justice for all.
(19) The arrest of the kingpin known as Z-40 is the first high profile takedown of a drug baron since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December with Mexico in the midst of a complex tapestry of cartel turf wars.
(20) Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike’s boyhood home were part of Gehry’s original design.
Tapis
Definition:
(n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
(v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(3) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(4) In the soap opera of French political eccentrics, few are as colourful and controversial as Tapie: a rags-to-riches businessman who began as a failed popstar and wannabe racing driver, hosted TV shows, became a minister under François Mitterrand, owned Olympique de Marseille football club but then served time in jail for match-fixing, and finally reinvented himself as actor and now press baron, recently buying the newspaper La Provence.
(5) Marseille were consumed by scandal after it emerged that the president, Bernard Tapie, had bribed three Valenciennes players to take it easy against his team in a league fixture at the end of the 1992-93 season.
(6) Although she is based in London, where she loves her "little garden", she and her long-time partner, the photographer Gilles Tapie, have been living a privileged nomadic existence for the past 17 years as they've followed the international trajectory of her career.
(7) Ini tidak hanya menyebabkan frekuensi banjir yang lebih sering, tapi juga berpotensi merusak saluran air bersih terpipa maupun sistem pembuangan air kotor.
(8) Tapie is a former Socialist minister and flamboyant business tycoon turned chatshow host who, as head of Olympique de Marseille football team, had served a prison sentence for match fixing.
(9) The then-socialist opposition claimed the arbitration process was rigged to reward Tapie for his support of Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
(10) Although only the Valenciennes match was proved to have been corrupt, Wenger had his suspicions about much of the Tapie era at Marseille and feared that his own players had been approached.
(11) Once Sarkozy was in office, Lagarde moved to stop the court action and instead authorised three judges to decide an out-of-court settlement that meant Tapie was awarded a massive €400m in compensation at the expense of the French taxpayer – over €280m of which he pocketed, after tax and costs.
(12) Lagarde said there was "nothing new under the sun" and she was ready to be heard in the case, involving businessman Bernard Tapie.
(13) Was there something that resonated with the money coming in – albeit legally – that reminded you of your experience in fighting the financial doping of Bernard Tapie’s Marseille when you were with Monaco?
(14) Tapie, a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, won the award in arbitration in 2008 to end a dispute with the government over his company's sale of Adidas.
(15) Tapie affair While Sarkozy was president, a complicated legal case involving businessman Bernard Tapie was sent by his government to arbitration, that eventually awarded Tapie €403 million.
(16) Tapie was later jailed and Marseille were stripped of the title they won that year.
(17) Dapat dimengerti bahwa kita sering kali menggantungkan harapan di pundak para politisi, tapi berharap politik akan dapat mengubah status quo secara mendasar hanyalah khayalan.
(18) The return might also have been significant for his long-standing assistant Boro Primorac, who was the Valenciennes coach in 1993 and who testified at Tapie's trial.
(19) It also attacked Lagarde’s reputation saying it was sullied by criminal allegations of negligence over €400m (£314m) of payments in the Bernard Tapie affair , dating back to when she was French finance minister.
(20) Investigators are examining whether the vast sum was deliberately rigged in favour of Tapie.