to embroider
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4.2
- verb
- /ɪmˈbrɔɪdər/
:
bordar
- Her brown-sashed dress is embroidered at the neck and cuffs with a cross at the back.
- embroidered dress
- embroidered robes
- embroidered with gold
It's got like big open sleeves and you've got leaves on there, like embroidered leaves.
- It's got like big open sleeves and you've got leaves on there, like embroidered leaves.
Examples
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Mother even had embroidered these very sentiments on samplers for our living room at home.
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As a concession to the cameras, she clutched an embroidered shawl around her shoulders.
Fiction book (1991) -
My mother embroidered this for me.
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I'll have you know that I embroidered these with my own two hands, okay?
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At the end of this whole thing, she made me this hand-embroidered sweater.
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Only the daughters of the gentry had the leisure to embroider such elaborate scenes.
Academic text (2002) -
The walls were covered with red silk hangings, embroidered with Chinese characters worked in gold.
Fiction book (1992) -
The baby wore a long, white, embroidered christening gown with a matching cap that Brita had made.
Fiction book (1992) -
Norman DeLuca came out wearing a red bathrobe embroidered with fire-breathing Chinese dragons.
Fiction book (1991) -
She decided to embroider a beautiful design on the tablecloth for the party.
Synonyms
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7.5
Decorate something with a bright, noticeable symbol or design
To sew designs on cloth with thread
To sew a piece of fabric onto another fabric to make a decoration
Antonyms
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Embroider comes from Old French broder, with the prefix em- meaning 'in' or 'on', and it originally meant to add thread designs to cloth, so today it still means to decorate fabric with needlework.