embroidery
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5.3
- noun
- /ɪmˈbroɪdəri/
:
embellecimiento
- "Embroidery consists in remembering."
Examples
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Another reason why I bought this is I thought it would be a really fun backdrop to do some stitching and embroidery tests.
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It was realizable that she was the procession herself; that all the rest of it was mere embroidery; that in her, the public saw the British Empire itself.
Academic text (1997) -
"Your words are full of embroidery, excellent lady, but need
Fiction book (2001) -
Far more embroidery would be involved.
Fiction book (1999) -
It wasn't for him to see that their ardent self-description is an embroidery of hunger.
Fiction book (1990) -
His short, direct sentences—as, for example, in Katinka's death scene—intend to convey meaning directly, shutting out the emotional embroidery of Jacobsen.
Academic text (1999) -
It was in Sierra Leone, four hundred years ago, that Portuguese-African adventurers first reported these and other chimpanzee behaviors; their accounts were dismissed as fantastic embroidery until recently, when many of the anecdotes have been verified by field research.
Academic text (1999) -
Her story was filled with embroidery, making even ordinary events sound thrilling and dramatic.
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The article included interesting embroidery that added depth to the historical account.
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When retelling the tale, he couldn't help but add a bit of embroidery to capture his audience's attention.
Synonyms
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1.0
Making something look more attractive by adding things like lights or ornaments
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5.8
Something added to make a story or thing more interesting
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4.2
Something added to make a person or thing look more attractive
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4.9
Details added to make something look more beautiful
Antonyms
Compounds
A long needle with a large eye that you use to thread thick thread for decorative sewing
A kind of sewing that uses yarn stitched through stiff open canvas to make pictures or patterns
How Embellished
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word embroidery comes from em- ('in' or 'on') and broider ('to stitch'), and a helpful way to remember the figurative meaning is to imagine 'stitching' extra bits onto a story. That's why embroidery can mean adding decorative or made-up details to make a tale more interesting.