arras

plural arrases

1. countableuncountableA tapestry or wall hanging.

   The room was hung with coarſe arras, which concealed the cloſet; […]

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter VII, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 133

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   At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: / Be you and I behind an arras then

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 159-160

   And with their conſorts chaſte at night they ſleep / On ſtatelieſt couches with rich arras ſpread.

   1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 219, lines 13–14

   Dozens of walls were covered with arrases like acts of homage, recognition, or flattery.

   1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree, page 241

1. A city, the capital of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, the historic centre of the Artois region