MEANING
A tapestry hanging used to cover or decorate a wall.
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- behind the arras
- heavy arras
- faded arras
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A faded arras covered the stone wall.
The servant vanished behind the arras.
A hunting scene was woven into the heavy arras.
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- Base
- arras
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular arras; plural arrases. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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