2. Noun. An embroidered decoration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embroidering
1. embroider [v] - See also: embroider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroidering
Literary usage of Embroidering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by DAVID. BREMNER (1869)
"The Egyptians acquired great celebrity in the art of embroidering the linen ...
The Egyptians, indeed, would appear to have had a passion for embroidering, ..."
2. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by David Bremner (1869)
"The Egyptians acquired great celebrity in the art of embroidering the linen ...
The Egyptians, indeed, would appear to have had a passion for embroidering, ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... witness a pair of my wife's grandfather's, richly embroidered upon black silk,
and a deeper gold fringe, the embroidering reaches above the elbow."—Mia. ..."
4. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward R. Carter (1894)
"Miss Johnson is an expert in artistic needle work, and all her spare moments are
utilized in fine lace-making and embroidering. She displays fine musical ..."
5. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1841)
"... the thick spreading of the threads, and by the embroidering art they adorn
all the woven work with various groups of images.'"1 Edward the Elder had his ..."
6. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"References to dyeing, weaving, embroidering, etc., in- the ancient laws regulating
Distress ; objects connected with those arts for the recovery of which ..."
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