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Definition of Stitcheries
1. stitchery [n] - See also: stitchery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stitcheries
Literary usage of Stitcheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"... specimens of her embroidery at Sizergh-castle which could scarcely have been
surpassed by the far-famed stitcheries of the sisters of king Athelstan. ..."
2. The Next-to-nothing House by Alice Van Leer Carrick (1922)
"The pattern is even older; it has that central vase design that you see so much
on old glass and samplers and faience, and in its myriad stitcheries it ..."
3. New Zealand: Or; Zealandia, the Britain of the South by Charles Hursthouse (1857)
"While dissipation in the milder form of temperance and tea-meetings, school
feasts, ' stitcheries,' and lectures, suffices for the recreation of the graver ..."
4. New Zealand: Its Emigration and Gold Fields by George Butler Earp (1853)
"... form of temperance and tea- meetings, school feasts, stitcheries, and lectures,
suffices for the recreation of the graver portion of the Auckland world. ..."
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