Middle English Dictionary Entry
tapestrī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tapestrī(e n. Also tapestrẹ̄, tappestri, tapesteri, tapistri(e, -trẹ̄, -teri, tapst(e)ri, tapstrẹ̄ & (?error) tapiestre. |
| Etymology | Prob. AL tapestria, tapistria; also cp. OF tapisserie or ME tapiserī(e n. with addition of inorganic t between s and r. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of decorative fabric in which sets of colored weft threads of one material are worked directly onto a uniform warp of another to furnish an ornamental design or figure, tapestry; bed of ~, a bed with a tapestry cover or hangings; cours ~, ?tapestry which is not finely worked; (b) ~ werk, tapestry material, tapestry cloth.
Associated quotations
a
- (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.4511 : Pro j aula rubia de opere tapestre.
- (1415) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)9.277 : Unum honestum Lectum de Worstede vel Tapestry, cum Testura, Selura, & Tribus curtinis.
- (1424) EEWills56/11 : I wul he haue al myn other houshoold..except my bed of Tapistree, þe which I wull my welbeloved wife Cecile haue.
- (1452) Lin.DDoc.62/32 : I wol that Mawde my wyffe haue..A Red bed of Tapestrye and a grene Bed of worsted.
- (1466-7) Acc.Howard in RC 57387 : xij peces of curse tapstery, every pece conteynenge xx Flemyshe stykes..fore every stykke, vij d.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(2) in Archaeol.21273 : Item, vj Cosschenys of tapestre.
b
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.164 : [A] doser [with..costers of] tapiestre work.
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)48 : Item, iij costers of tapesteriwark to the same red, blou, and plonket, paled with ȝokkes.
- (1434) Will NCountry in Sur.Soc.11643 : Item, lego domino Fitzhugh..lectum meum de tapstriwerke cum leonibus et pelicano superius.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6081 : j blewe bedde of state wyth a libert & a grete tre of tapestry work.
- (1452) Will York in Sur.Soc.45134 : ij coopertoriorum pro lecto de tapistri-werke cum capitibus serpentum, xij s.
- (1452) Will York in Sur.Soc.45148 : j coopertorii de blodio pro lecto de tapistery warke, iij s.
- (?1474) Stonor1.147 : Item, ij cuschyns of tappestri wurke wyth nottes.
- (a1500) Collect.Anglo-Premonst.in RHS ser.3.6264 : ii keuerings of Tapstre werk; iiii hanges of grene say.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(2) in Archaeol.21257 : Clothis of Arras and of Tapstre warke.
- -?-(1459) Will in Som.RS 16191 : Two beddis..with testours, celours, curteynes of tarteron, with all the costers of Tapistriewerke perteyning to the same beddes.