tapestried

[ tap-uh-streed ]

adjective

1. furnished or covered with tapestries.
2. represented in tapestry, as a story.

Other Words From

• un·tapes·tried adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tapestried¹

First recorded in 1620–30; tapestry + -ed ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

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.

From Literature

Nothing else about their sound has been that straightforward, familiar or stable — it’s gothic, romanticist, fraught, melodramatic, smart, kinky; there are rockabilly gestures, tapestried synths, gale-force desert-scapes.

From New York Times

The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.

From Washington Post

AMYNDEON, Greece — The landscape of the Macedonian region in northern Greece is tapestried with vineyards.

From New York Times

The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”

From Los Angeles Times