Gobelin

See also: gobelin

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Gobelin (plural Gobelins)

1. A mainly French and Flemish type of tapestry having richly coloured pictorial designs.
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     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
• Hungarian: gobelin (hu)
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• Macedonian: гоблен m (goblen)
• Polish: gobelin (pl) m

See also

• gobelin
• goblin

Anagrams

• gobline, ignoble, inglobe