Gobelin
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See also: gobelin
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after a Parisian manufacturing company founded by Jean Gobelin, whose French name derives from German Kobold (“evil gnome”).
Noun[edit]
Gobelin (plural Gobelins)
- A mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry having richly coloured pictorial designs.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Translations[edit]
a mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry
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Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a French manufacturing company, see above.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
Gobelin m (strong, genitive Gobelins, plural Gobelins)
- an artistically decorated type of tapestry
Declension[edit]
Declension of Gobelin [masculine, strong]
Further reading[edit]
- “Gobelin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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