archaic. : a small tapestry used for hangings and floor and table coverings.

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(of a subject) under consideration or discussion. This expression is a partial translation of the French phrase sur le tapis , meaning literally ‘on the carpet’. A carpet in this context is a covering for a table rather than a floor, as indeed it is in the English idiom on the carpet.

1a : a heavy handwoven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains, and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs. b : a nonreversible imitation of tapestry used chiefly for upholstery.

Tapestry, woven decorative fabric, the design of which is built up in the course of weaving. Broadly, the name has been used for almost any heavy material, handwoven, machine woven, or even embroidered, used to cover furniture, walls, or floors or for the decoration of clothing.

Imagine that each person’s life is a tapestry… The picture that people see when they look at us consists of all the threads woven into our tapestry from past events; past relationships, past encounters. It represents people who have touched our lives since we were born.

In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for tapestry, like: drapery, fabric, weaving, embroidery, dosser, curtain, decoration, hanging, tapis, gobelin and null.

The Tapestry Metaphor The threads are woven together into an artistic design that may be pleasing to some but not to others. Each thread is akin to a person, and groups of similar threads are analogous to a culture.

A phrase that encourages acceptance of the unenjoyable things that happen in life. Nobody likes dealing with car problems, but they’re just part of life’s rich tapestry, unfortunately. The tantrums of toddlerhood are all part of life’s rich tapestry.

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Arthur Marshall

drummer Bill Berry

Some have described American culture as a tapestry with individual threads representing the different backgrounds of immigrants. Each thread keeps its characteristics yet together the strands weave a vibrant collage of language, traditions, music, foods and art.

Cultural identity is a tapestry, a tapestry of one’s social interactions, traditions, values, philosophy on life, and so on. Culture is not purely family or ethnicity or location or religion; it is an amalgam of these things—a unique weaving of what makes up our everyday lives.

Power distance is the extent that people within a society accept that power is distributed unequally. High power distance cultures have higher levels of inequality and are more willing to accept that without question.

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America is a classic low-power distance culture. When push comes to show, Americans fall back on their American-ness, and that American-ness means that the air traffic controller is thought of as an equal.

Germany is male. Britain’s “unofficial” anthem is “Land of Hope and Glory, MOTHER of the free”.

In the 2020 Global Peace Index, Germany is ranked 16 out of 163 countries when it comes to safety and peace in the country. In Europe, Germany is ranked 11 out of 36 countries.