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TAPESTRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tapestried mean? 

TAPESTRIED (adjective)
  The adjective TAPESTRIED has 1 sense:

1. hung or decorated with tapestryplay

  Familiarity information: TAPESTRIED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAPESTRIED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Hung or decorated with tapestry

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)


 Context examples 


Du Guesclin gazed round the tapestried room, at the screens, the tables, the abace, the credence, the buffet with its silver salver, and the half-circle of friendly, wondering faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We mounted the first staircase, passed up the gallery, proceeded to the third storey: the low, black door, opened by Mr. Rochester's master-key, admitted us to the tapestried room, with its great bed and its pictorial cabinet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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