tapestry

英语

词源

源自中古英語 tapiestre，源自古法語 tapisserie (“绣帷”)。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtæpəstɹi/, [ˈtæpəst͡ʃɹi]

• （美国）音频：

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名词

tapestry (可數 和 不可數，複數 tapestries)

1. 壁毯，挂毯；绣帷
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, 章號 3, 出自 The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

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2. (引申义) 形形色色的事物；错综复杂的事物
   • 2013 January-February, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, 出自 American Scientist‎^[2], 第 101 卷, 第 1 期，第 59 頁:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

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动词

tapestry (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tapestries，現在分詞 tapestrying，一般過去時及過去分詞 tapestried)

1. (及物，不及物) 用绣帷或绣帷一般的饰品来装饰
   • 1833, Adolphus Slade, Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.‎^[3], "Captain Pasha's Alarm"，第 152 頁:

     We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues […]

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   • 1854年9月13日, Nathaniel Hawthorne, English Note-Books‎^[4], "Conway Castle":

     The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.

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   • 1921, Israel Zangwill, The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts‎^[5]，第 255 頁:

     I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.

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参见

• tapetum lucidum

异序词

• spattery, tryptase