tapestryの意味・使い方・発音

tapestry

英 ['tæpɪstrɪ] 美 ['tæpəstri]

タペストリー tapestry, タペストリー, タペストリー

古フランス語のtapisserie（タピスリー）、tapestry（タペストリー）、tapestry（タペストリー）、tapiz（タピズ）、blanket（ブランケット）、carpet（カーペット）から。

tapestry: tapestry: [15] The ultimate source of tapestry is Greek tápēs ‘tapestry, woven carpet’. Its diminutive from tapētion was borrowed via late Latin tapētium into Old French as tapis ‘carpet’. From this was derived the verb tapisser ‘cover with a carpet’, and this in turn formed the basis of a noun tapisserie ‘carpets, woven material’. English took it over and altered it to tapestry.
tapestry (n.): late 14c., tapiestre, with unetymological -t-, from Old French tapisserie "tapestry" (14c.), from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric, carpet," from tapiz "carpet, floor covering" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tappetium, from Byzantine Greek tapetion, from classical Greek, diminutive of tapes (genitive tapetos) "heavy fabric, carpet, rug," from an Iranian source (compare Persian taftan "to turn, twist"), from PIE *temp- "to stretch." The figurative use is first recorded 1580s.

1. The seats of the chairs had been recovered in tapestry .: 椅子座にはまた花じゅうたんが敷かれている。

2.He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth.: 暖炉の端にある刺繍入りのクッションに座っている。

3.His "An Orkney Tapestry "is still the definitive book on the islands.: 彼の『オークニのタペストリー』という本は、これらの島に関する最も権威のある著作です。Hedgerows and meadows are thick with a tapestry of wild flowers.; 低木の生垣と芝生の中にカラフルな野の花が咲いている。