Obs. Also 5 tapecery(e, tapcery, tapisery, -yssere, 5–6 -ery(e (tapserye), 6 tapycerye, -esserie, -essarie (Sc.), tappyssery, tapissary, -arie, tapisry, -issrie, 7 -issry. [a. F. tapisserie (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. tapissier a tapestry-worker, or tapisser to cover with carpet, f. tapis carpet, table-cloth: see TAPIS sb. and -ERY.] The early form of the word TAPESTRY. Also attrib.
1426. E. E. Wills (1882), 76. A blewe bedde of Tapecery.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 6. Clothis of gold, silk, and tapcery.
c. 1430. Brut, 460. Alle the stretes … were hanged with cloþes of arras and with clothes of tapissery werk.
1497. Caxton’s Chron. Eng., VII. (W. de W.), S vj b/1. The stretes were coueryd ouer his heed wyth sylk of tapisery.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. li. 181. Chambres hanged with tapyceryes and curteynes.
1530. Palsgr., 279/1. Tappyssery werke, tapisserie.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 115 b. Riche clothes of Arras and Tapissrie.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. xi. 260. The grounde couered and garnisshed with natures Tapesserie.
1578. T. N., trans. Conq. W. India, 183. Rich Mantels, Tapissary Targats, tuffes of feathers.
1683. Evelyn, Diary, 4 Oct. The new fabriq of French tapissry. Ibid. (1697), Numismata, viii. 285. Clemens Alexandrinus in the Tenth Book of his Tapisseries.
