Gobelin

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

 

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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.

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• gobline, ignoble, inglobe

From a French manufacturing company, see above.

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Gobelin m (strong, genitive Gobelins, plural Gobelins)

1. an artistically decorated type of tapestry

• “Gobelin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache