= TAPESTRY sb. 1.

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1434.  N. C. Wills (Surtees, 1908), 43. Lectum meum de tapstriwerke cum leonibus et pelicano.

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1459.  in Paston Lett., I. 479. Item, j testyr of blewe tapistry warke.

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1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1332/1. The feast was excellentlie well furnished of all things, & speciallie of tapistrie worke & other deuises of sugar.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, VIII. xlviii. 227. The course rough wool … hath been of auncient time highly commended and accounted of in tapestrie worke.

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1812.  Mar. Edgeworth, Vivian, viii. Miss Strictland [followed] bearing her ladyship’s tapestry work.

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  Comb.  c. 1515.  Cocke Lorell’s B., 9. Borlers, tapstry worke, makers, and dyers.

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  So Tapestry-worked a., tapestried; Tapestry-worker, one who works or makes tapestry.

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1727.  (title) The Practice of Perspective … a work highly necessary for Painters, Embroiderers, Jewellers, Tapestry Workers.

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1883.  Ld. R. Gower, Rec. & Remin., xxi. II. 60. Two large tapestry-worked screens.

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