Definition of arras Arras
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What does arras mean?
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| arras - a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs | ||
| tapestry | ||
| wall hanging, hanging a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- arras (n.)
Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. - arras (v. t.)
To furnish with an arras.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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arras
ar′ras, n. tapestry: a hanging screen of such hung round the walls of rooms.—p.adj. Ar′rased, covered with arras.—n. Ar′rasene, an embroidery material of wool and silk stitched in like crewels. [From Arras in Northern France, where first manufactured.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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arras
(Northeast France). The ancient Atrebates; conquered by Cæsar in 50 B.C.; captured and sacked by the Vandals in 407; captured by the Normans in 880; besieged by Charles VI. in 1414; captured by Louis XI.; held by the Austrians from 1493 till 1640, when it was taken by Louis XIII.; besieged by the Spaniards in 1654.
Wikipedia 
- Arras is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
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