tapestry
英語 編輯
詞源 編輯
源自中古英語 tapiestre，源自古法語 tapisserie (「繡帷」)。
發音 編輯
名詞 編輯
tapestry (可數 和 不可數，複數 tapestries)
- 壁毯，掛毯；繡帷
- 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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- (引申義) 形形色色的事物；錯綜複雜的事物
- 2013 January-February, Nancy Langston, 「The Fraught History of a Watery World」, 出自 American Scientist[2], 卷 101, 期 1，頁號 59:
- 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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動詞 編輯
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)
- (及物，不及物) 用繡帷或繡帷一般的飾品來裝飾
- 1833, Adolphus Slade, Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.[3], "Captain Pasha's Alarm"，頁號 152:
- 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 9月 13, 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]，頁號 255:
- 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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