[f. prec. sb. See also TAPISTER.]
1. trans. To cover, hang, or adorn with, or as with, tapestry. (Chiefly in pass.)
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 192 (1810), 206. The ruins … is … tapestried with ivy.
1798. Charlotte Smith, Yng. Philos., II. 102. The hardiest plant that tapestries the rude bosom of the North. Ibid., 165. My walls … were tapestried with the rock lichen.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., II. 14. The grape-leaves with which the verandah was tapestried.
2. To work or depict in tapestry.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxiii. Remnants of tapestried hangings.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta, II. xl. Where Elizabethan mothers and daughters … had tapestried the love-scenes of Isaac and Jacob.
Hence Tapestried ppl. a., adorned with tapestry; woven in the manner of tapestry.
1769. Sir W. Jones, Pal. Fortune, 24. Some tap’stried hall, or gilded bower.
1794. Southey, Retrospect, 104. Still with pleasure I recall The tapestried school, the bright brown-boarded hall.
1814. [see 2].
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, xlii. Making covers of … net-work for these tapestried cushions.
