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Definition of Arras
1. Noun. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
Definition of Arras
1. n. Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.
2. v. t. To furnish with an arras.
Definition of Arras
1. Noun. A tapestry or wall hanging. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arras
1. a tapestry [n -ES] : ARRASED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arras
Literary usage of Arras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Bon-Joseph Dacier, Pierre Desrey (1867)
"ON the Sunday following, the last day of July, the embassy from king Charles of
Franco arrived at arras. The ambassadors had como from Rheims, through Laon ..."
2. Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, Excluding by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1899)
"24), where they join the direct line from Paris to arras. Thence to (38 M.)
arras, see p. 19. On leaving arras our line passes the railway to ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"For the tapestry manufacture formerly flourishing at arras see TAPESTRY. ...
Before the opening of the Christian era arras was known as ..."
4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Their infantry was pushed forward practically to the outskirts of the town, THE
PLACE DE 1'HOTEL DE VILLE IN arras IN AUGUST. 1915 their trenches being at ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In March, 1488, he finally accepted the Peace of arras, and without any ...
Though this event could hardly lead to the undoing of the Peace of arras, ..."
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