Tapestry vs Mosaic - What's the difference?
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A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=January-February
, author=Nancy Langston
, title=The Fraught History of a Watery World
, volume=101, issue=1, page=59
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
* {{quote-book, year=1833, author=Adolphus Slade, title=Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.
, passage=We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues
* {{quote-book, year=1854, date=September 13, author=, title=English Note-Books
, passage=The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Israel Zangwill, title=The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts
, passage=I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.}}
A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
(genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
(botany) A viral disease of plants.
A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
(of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.
As nouns the difference between tapestry and mosaic
is that tapestry is a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls while mosaic is a piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.As a verb tapestry
is to decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.As an adjective mosaic is
containing cells of varying genetic constitution.tapestry
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(tapestries)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry -hung wall behind.}}
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
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