Arras

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. --Cowper.
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           Behind the arras I'll convey myself.     --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arras \Ar"ras\, v. t.
     To furnish with an arras. --Chapman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  arras
       n : a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial
           designs [syn: {tapestry}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.