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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs;
[syn: tapestry, arras]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Arras \Ar"ras\, n. [From Arras the capital of Artois, in the French Netherlands.] Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. [1913 Webster] Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Behind the arras I'll convey myself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Arras \Ar"ras\, v. t. To furnish with an arras. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

arras n 1: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: tapestry, arras]
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

ARRAS, Span. law. The property contributed by the husband, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The husband is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a tenth of his property. The arras is the exclusive property of the wife, subject to the husband's usufruct during his life. Burge on the Confl. of Laws, 417. 2. By arras is also understood the donation which the husband makes to his wife, by reason or on account of marriage, and in consideration of the dote, or portion, which be receives from her. Aso & Man. Inst. h.t. 7, c. 3.