tapestrylike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a tapestry.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English tapestry →
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Meanings

adjectivetapestrylike (comparative more tapestrylike, superlative most tapestrylike)

comparative more tapestrylike · superlative most tapestrylike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tapestry.

    The tapestrylike pictures have a sweetly personal poetry unlike the more anonymously stylized look of the exhibition’s other works.

    2007 October 12, Ken Johnson, “From Tibet, Art of Enlightenment”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishtapestry
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishtapestrylike

From tapestry + -like.

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Chicago

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