Definitions for Arras

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Arras ar·ras

Spelling: [ar-uh s]

IPA: /ˈær əs/

Arras is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Arras (aarrs).

Definitions for Arras

noun

1. a rich tapestry.
2. a tapestry weave.
3. a wall hanging, as a tapestry or similar object.
4. Theater. a curtain suspended loosely across a stage and used as a backdrop or part of a stage setting.
5. a gift presented at marriage by a husband to his wife in consideration of her dowry.
6. a city in and capital of Pas-de-Calais, in N France: battles in World War I.
7. a department in N France. 2607 sq. mi. (6750 sq. km). Capital: Arras.

Origin of Arras

1375-1425; late Middle English, named after Arras

Examples for Arras

The latter ran now along the great highway from Tongres to arras.

At arras in June, there was almost as much activity as at Ypres.

He had been able to form some estimate of the enemy's strength between arras and the sea.

Such was the medival rank to which the cathedral at arras had attained.

Not a picture on the walls, not an arras, but had been rent to shreds.

If this army was defeated, the loss of arras was not the only misfortune to be dreaded.

They had remained behind the arras, and had not gone out as she must have supposed.

When there he married the daughter of the rich owner of a spinning factory at arras.

"I daresay not," she confessed, nestling the more closely in his arras.

The army of Gen. de Castelnau did not extend on its left south of arras.