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Definition of Cutworks
1. cutwork [n] - See also: cutwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutworks
Literary usage of Cutworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors; an Account of the Different Styles of by Margaret Jourdain (1908)
"In 1635 a royal proclamation, having for its object the protection of home fabrics,
prohibited the use of foreign cutworks, and ordered all ..."
2. A History of Lace by Bury Palliser (1869)
"... with cutworks. ... I. •* " This comes of wearing Scarlet, gold lace and
cutworks; your line ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"Now for women, instead of laborious studies, they have curious needleworks,
cutworks, spinning, ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... cutworks, nor conceits. He set the shippes, of merchantmen on worke, With
bringing home, oyle, graine, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... mention the fine "cutworks" and "points" of Italy, and no one had more of them
than Queen Elizabeth. She also patronized fine Flemish lace. ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"Now for women, instead of laborious studies, they have curious needleworks,
cutworks, spinning, ..."
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