embroidery
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- noun
- /ɪmˈbroɪdəri/
- The beautiful embroidery on her dress features intricate floral patterns.
- embroidery on white cotton
- silk embroidery
- wool embroidery
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Watch on YouTubeSicily was very famous for embroidery during the Arab.
- Sicily was very famous for embroidery during the Arab.
- This is plain black and it has really pretty flower embroidery on the shoulders.
- And it has the, you know, pink stitching and pink embroidery on it.
- It's nice and tight across the surface of the embroidery.
- I have this new merch which is a T-shirt and it's white with black embroidery and it says on it can I sleep now?
- There's all of this elaborate embroidery.
- So as well as being the softest things you've ever felt, they also have this gold hardware and embroidery detailing which is really nice.
- I'll never forget she had a white cotton ankle length nightgown on with a little embroidery on it.
Examples
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This is plain black and it has really pretty flower embroidery on the shoulders.
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Such pretty shirts with embroidery.
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In looking up from her embroidery, she looks up at me.
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It's like a silver color with cream embroidery all over it.
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It's velvet with gold embroidery.
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Miss Alicia, tell us, how is your embroidery coming along?
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She does the embroidery herself.
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Look at this exquisite embroidery from the 18th century!
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In four more months, she would finish the embroidery along the sleeves and on the apron.
Fiction book (1999) -
Daphne calmly set down her embroidery and reached under the end table.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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A kind of hand sewing on canvas that makes decorative pictures
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Work done by sewing or embroidery and things made in this way
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A way of sewing small X shapes into cloth to make pictures
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Decorative sewing done with a needle and thread
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Making things by hand with a needle, for example sewing and embroidery
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Decorative stitching on clothes or fabric, often in a delicate style
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Decorative sewing like embroidery or lace that makes cloth look nicer
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Decorative patterns sewn by hand rather than by machine
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A type of cloth decoration made by sewing coloured wool thread into raised patterns
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A kind of sewing that uses yarn stitched through stiff open canvas to make pictures or patterns
Decorative sewing where threads are pulled out of the cloth to make lace patterns
Compounds
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A long needle with a large eye that you use to thread thick thread for decorative sewing
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A kind of sewing that uses yarn stitched through stiff open canvas to make pictures or patterns
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word embroidery comes from em- ('in' or 'on') and broider ('to stitch'), and it originally meant sewing thread onto cloth. So embroidery is the art of decorating fabric with needle and thread.