🌲 A bundle of sticks 🚫 An offensive slur 🪢 To tie in bundles 🧵 To stitch together

to fagot

9.9

To sew fabric pieces together with a decorative open stitch

verb

: unir con puntada fagot

She carefully fagotted the edges of the scarf to create a delicate, openwork border.

Examples

The designer fagots panels of lace together to add texture to the dress.
He fagotted the sleeves of the blouse, giving it a handcrafted look.
She loves to fagot colorful fabrics for her quilt.
The artisan fagotted the edges of the fabric beautifully.
He fagotted the sleeves of the blouse, giving it a handcrafted look.
She carefully fagotted the edges of the scarf to create a delicate, openwork border.
The artisan fagotted the edges of the fabric beautifully.

Synonyms

to faggot

vsto fagot

Specialized

9.9

To sew pieces of fabric together using a decorative open stitch

is the same meaning but uses a single g spelling

to filet

vsto fagot

Specialized

9.7

To decorate cloth with a lace border made from a square net

joins fabric with an open decorative stitch rather than net mesh

Antonyms

to dismantle

64 4.2

Take something apart into separate pieces

Compounds

fagot stitch

9.9

A decorative stitch that joins fabric pieces with small tied threads to make a lacy edge

How Decorative

to embellish

10 6.3

to ornament

4 3.7

to fagot

9.9

to sew

242 1.0

join

11 2.9

Surface Forms

fagot infinitive

fagotted past

fagotted past participle

fagoting present participle

fagots third person singular

Etymology

Fagot in sewing comes from the same root meaning 'bundle' and refers to a decorative stitch that 'ties' fabric pieces together, so the word keeps the idea of joining or binding.