English term
Gobelin Tapestry Club
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"The lady being neither young nor handsome, and if not yet a member, first on the list to be elected one of the Gobelin Tapestry Club, could scarcely believe that her ears had not deceived her, but willing to be convinced, she contrived to let him repeat his offer, and utter a hundred pretty nothings before she ventured to make a reply, which was quite a characteristic one—..."
This paragraph is from a short story published by a London Magazine in 1840.
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Taña Dalglish
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Taña Dalglish
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Jamaica
Translating the Ideas Behind the Words
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
fictional club
As per discussion and references:
See page 214 for one of the short stories.
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Very good! Thank you.
| By the context it is a kind of name for the group of women considered old maids. |
generic name for a type of club / society, including the associated connotations
this front page gives a pretty good idea of the typical membership:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FEc5AQAAMAAJ&printsec=fr...
New Monthly Belle Assemblée
https://books.google.co.uk › books
1840
... first on the list to be elected one of who was hastily tying on a clean apron , and looked the Gobelin Tapestry Club , could scarcely believe as flushed ...
New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 12
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FEc5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=...
Ans again
The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 17
https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=OkIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA214&l...
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Jamaica
Translating the Ideas Behind the Words
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
Ref.
Page 214 "The Old Maid in Love".
The truth was, Miss Wrinklebrow could not bear the idea os her sister's marrying, ... and be content to mix chiefly with the Gobelin Tapestry Club, of which she considered herself to be as yet only an honorary member, and not even duly elected.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: just fictional. Nothing to do with any allusions
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Thank you. I was not the one to mention "allusions".
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Greece
EnFrGreek Medical/Mechanical/Legal
Native in: Greek (Variant: Modern) , Greek (Ancient) (Variants: Koine (common), Doric, Homeric, Ionic, Aeolic) 
Works in: French to Greek, Greek to French, English to Greek, and 5 more.
Gobelin Tapestry Club
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/gobelins-tapestries.html
https://books.google.gr/books?id=sPXXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT74&lpg=PT...
Listed below are some references that may prove quite useful to you if you want to comprehend the meaning of such an old and traditional Tapestry club that still exists in our time.
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A Gobelins Tapestry
By far the most famous of the French tapestry weaving workshops is Gobelins. Originally, in the mid 15th century, Gobelins was not a weaving manufacturer but a family of textile dyers who set up an establishment in what is now the 13th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 17th century Henri IV moved a team of Flemish tapestry weavers in and 1662 Jean-Baptiste Colbert bought the place on behalf of his royal master Louis XIV.
https://daysontheclaise.blogspot.com/2012/06/gobelins-tapest...
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Tony M
: What in your references actually indicates that such a club has ever existed or still does exist?
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Yvonne Gallagher
: just a fictional club, part of the story
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Discussion
But as a type of club it couldn't be more "real" (for the year 1840, of course) - it's nowhere near the same kind of "fictional" as in say science-fiction.
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Page 142: "A Few Passages, &c."
When fortune smiles, she sometimes is more than gracious to her favourites; ... Miss Judy Smithson, a lady somewhat past of the prime of her life, and yet not quite old enough to take place among the **Gobelin Tapestry** at the village tea-tables.