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Embroideress   Listen
noun
embroideress  n.  A woman who embroiders; a woman embroiderer.






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"Embroideress" Quotes from Famous Books



... any manual labor without losing caste. She may be a good cook, a fine laundress, a carver of wood, a painter, a sculptor, an embroideress, a writer, a physician, and she will be eligible, if her manners are good, to the best society anywhere. But if she outrage the laws of good-breeding in the place where she is, she cannot expect to take her place in society. Should she be seen at Newport driving two gentlemen in her pony-phaeton, ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood



Words linked to "Embroideress" :   embroiderer



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