Meanings
plural Gobelins
- A mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry having richly coloured pictorial designs.
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40
Origin
- GermanKobold“evil gnome”
- EnglishGobelin
Named after a Parisian manufacturing company founded by Jean Gobelin, whose French name derives from German Kobold (“evil gnome”).
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Bulgarian гоблен
- гоблен (goblen)a mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Dutch gobelin m and, wandtapijt
- gobelin m anda mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
- wandtapijta mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Esperanto gobelino
- gobelinoa mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Hungarian gobelin
- gobelina mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Polish gobelin, arras
- gobelina mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
- arrasa mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
- tapiseriaa mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Portuguese gobelim, gobelina
- gobelima mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
- gobelinaa mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Spanish gobelino
- gobelinoa mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
Swedish gobeläng
- gobelänga mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
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Gobelin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gobelin
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