† ˈtapissery 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 n. 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. tr. Conq. W. India 183 Rich Mantels, Tapissary Targats, tuffes of feathers. 1683 Evelyn Diary 4 Oct., The new fabriq of French tapissry. 1697 ― Numismata viii. 285 Clemens Alexandrinus in the Tenth Book of his Tapisseries. |