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Definition:
n. tapestry: a hanging screen of such hung round the walls of rooms.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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(named after the northern French city where the tapestries were once made)
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Be you and I behind an arras then;

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Lurking like a rat behind the arras, I heard the steps from below slow as they approached the door,

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The walls are of panelled oak, with an eight-foot dado of Arras cloth imitated from unique Continental examples.

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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