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WALL HANGING

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• WALL HANGING (noun)
The noun WALL HANGING has 1 sense:

1. decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

Familiarity information: WALL HANGING used as a noun is very rare.

• WALL HANGING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hanging; wall hanging

Context example:

the cold castle walls were covered with hangings

Hypernyms ("wall hanging" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wall hanging"):

dossal; dossel (an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel)

Kakemono (a Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging; usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom)

lambrequin (short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing)

arras; tapestry (a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs)

"A person is known by the company he keeps."
(English proverb)
"Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand."
(Native American proverb, Lakota)
"Journey and you will find replacement to the ones left behind."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who lives fast goes straight to his death."
(Corsican proverb)

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