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Definition of Embroideress
1. Noun. A woman embroiderer.
Definition of Embroideress
1. Noun. female embroiderer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroideress
Literary usage of Embroideress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen by E. Owens Blackburne (1877)
"That is to say, a yearling calf to every woman whatever as the fine for her
needle, except the embroideress, for as regards her, it is the value of an ounce ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"The office of an embroideress was one of considerable importance as a feminine
... an embroideress of Hereford, was granted the lease of a farm of 200 acres ..."
3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"Katherine Lincoln, of Dowgate,' was a celebrated embroideress somewhat later,
and also ' Rose de Burford,' the wife of a London citi/.en. ..."
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