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，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
   • 2013January-February，Nancy Langston，“The Fraught History of a Watery World”，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，簡單過去時和過去分詞 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