🇬🇧 Tapestry meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card
noun
A tapestry is a special kind of thick cloth that has a picture or a detailed pattern woven or stitched right into it. Instead of being drawn with pencils or painted with paint, the picture is made by carefully weaving or sewing many different colored threads into a strong fabric. Long ago, people hung tapestries on castle walls to decorate rooms and keep them warmer. When you look at a tapestry, it’s like looking at a picture that’s also a blanket made of tiny, colorful threads.
The school hung a tapestry of our town, but they forgot the ice cream shop, so we called it historically inaccurate.
I made a tapestry of my family, but the threads got mixed and now my dad has my haircut and I have his mustache.
I tried to fix a loose thread on the tapestry and accidentally gave the queen in it a mustache.
The ancient tapestry showed a great battle, plus one random chicken in the corner who clearly got lost.
People used to hang tapestries on cold stone walls to keep rooms warmer—so they were basically medieval heaters that also showed epic woven cartoons.
An old woman hung a heavy tapestry over a cracked wall. She smoothed the folds of the tapestry, then lifted a corner and found a child's note sewn into the tapestry. She read it, laughing and crying as she traced the woven bright thread across the tapestry. That small discovery repaired something; the tapestry warmed the cold room.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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