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Gobelin: tags: [art] [garniture]

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a famous French family of tapestry makers that became so enormously wealthy from their trade that the fourth generation decendents spurned the business and purchased titles of nobility. The factory still operates and is now run by the state.

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The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 11 (Book Eleven)

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