fancywork
- noun
- /ˈfæn.si.wɜrk/
- Archaic
:
bordado
- She spent the afternoon doing fancywork to decorate the tablecloth with intricate embroidery.
Examples
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The dress was beautifully embellished with fancywork, featuring delicate lace and colorful stitching.
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They made one another clothespin dolls for Christmas; they sewed and did fancywork in competition for their stepmother's praise; they passed their dreams and their dresses on to one another.
Fiction book (1996) -
And those scissors women use for fancywork have infernally thin, sharp blades.
Fiction book (1993) -
Weekdays were half school, half work; the children, who rose at five after their parents, did housework before school and darning or fancywork before bed.
Fiction book (1996) -
During the craft fair, many vendors showcased their fancywork, including hand-stitched quilts and decorative pillows.
Synonyms
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4.7
Decoration on cloth made by sewing thread into raised patterns
12
4.9
A kind of hand sewing on canvas that makes decorative pictures
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3.1
Stitching together layers of fabric with soft filling to make a warm blanket
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3.4
Work done by sewing or embroidery and things made in this way
2
3.9
Decorative designs made by sewing or stringing beads together
2
6.2
A decorative piece of fabric sewn onto clothing or other fabric to make a design
1
6.8
A delicate open pattern of threads used to decorate veils or dresses
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6.8
Decorative sewing done with a needle and thread
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3.6
Work made by sewing or knitting to make patterns on cloth like a quilt
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8.5
Decorative stitching that gathers fabric to make a stretchy pattern on clothes
Making things by hand with a needle, for example sewing and embroidery
Decorative stitching on clothes or fabric, often in a delicate style
Decorative patterns sewn by hand rather than by machine
A kind of sewing that uses yarn stitched through stiff open canvas to make pictures or patterns
A type of cloth decoration made by sewing coloured wool thread into raised patterns
A craft that forms delicate open patterns from thread by hand
Decorative sewing where threads are pulled out of the cloth to make lace patterns
Cloth made by looping yarn with needles, like a sweater
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fancywork comes from fancy ('imagination' or 'decoration') + work ('something made'). It was used for needlework like embroidery and lace that decorates cloth, so it simply means 'fancy' sewing made to decorate fabric.