Gobelin

See also: gobelin

English

Etymology

Named after a Parisian manufacturing company founded by Jean Gobelin, whose French name derives from German Kobold (“evil gnome”).

Noun

Gobelin (plural Gobelins)

1. 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

a mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry

• Bulgarian: гоблен (bg) m (goblen)
• Dutch: gobelin m and n, wandtapijt (nl) n
• Esperanto: gobelino
• Hungarian: gobelin (hu)
• Macedonian: гоблен m (goblen)
• Polish: gobelin (pl) m, arras (pl) m, tapiseria (pl) f
• Spanish: gobelino m
• Swedish: gobeläng (sv) c

See also

• gobelin
• goblin

Anagrams

• gobline, ignoble, inglobe

German

Etymology

From a French manufacturing company, see above.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Gobelin m (strong, genitive Gobelins, plural Gobelins)

1. an artistically decorated type of tapestry

Declension

Declension of Gobelin [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Gobelin	die	Gobelins
genitive	eines	des	Gobelins	der	Gobelins
dative	einem	dem	Gobelin	den	Gobelins
accusative	einen	den	Gobelin	die	Gobelins

Further reading

• “Gobelin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache