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noun

Embroidery n. (pl. embroideries)

Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. "Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed." "A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases."

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Etymology of 'Embroidery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embroidery" Quotes from Famous Books

... contained their time-honored furniture, all in the best possible repair, heavy, dark, polished; beds that had been marriage beds and dying beds over and over again; chairs with carved backs; and all manner of old world curiosities; family pictures, and samplers, and embroidery; fragments of tapestry; an inlaid floor; everything having a story to it, though, to say the truth, the possessor of these curiosities made but a bungling piece of work in telling the legends connected with them. In one or two instances ...

— The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) - Outlines of an English Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... "I left my Alma Mater in disgust yesterday morning. Did you suppose even her kindly embrace could keep me away from —— during these pleasant months? My motto is 'recreation as well as labor.' But come, Nellie, lay aside that embroidery, and go with Mary and me to Blinkdale—the sun has dried the dew, and the birds are having a perfect concert among the old trees—Rosalie is waiting for us at ...

— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith

... things end, and he heard of her at last. She had never returned to the Post, as he at first thought she would, but had gone to the little town of B——, in Ontario, where she was making her living at embroidery and plain sewing. ...

— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson

... went to Fresno. On their return Julia seemed more than pleased with her purchases. It is not to be expected that each kind of garment that was bought will be mentioned here, neither will we go into a minute description of the amount of lace, embroidery, insertion and scallop work on ...

— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge

... a knitting needle to where Brettison sat, propped up in a chair in the shadow of the rock with a table before him, and Miss Jerrold, who looked very old and grey and stately, turned her head, nodded, and went on with the embroidery about which her busy ...

— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn

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