Embroidery
[ɪm'brɒɪd(ə)rɪ;em-] or [ɪm'brɔɪdəri]
Definition
(n.) Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
(n.) Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Variegated needle-work.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If a woman dreams of embroidering, she will be admired for her tact and ability to make the best of everything that comes her way. For a married man to see embroidery, signifies a new member in his household, For a lover, this denotes a wise and economical wife.
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Examples
- From this point of time successful embroidery machines were made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is also valuable for transferring figures in embroidery and taking impressions of leaves for herbariums, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The cloth was automatically shifted to correspond to the pattern to be produced, and thus was chain stitch embroidery first manufactured. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- While he was teaching at the Greenes’ home he noticed that the embroidery frame that Mrs. Greene used tore the fine threads of her work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Permit her to neglect the embroidery for this evening. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I hastened to sanction the presence of the embroidery, exactly as I had sanctioned the absence of the burst buzzard and the Cupid's wing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I disposed of another in the back drawing-room, under some unfinished embroidery, which I knew to be of Lady Verinder's working. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My first act was to put out my hand to relieve her breathing; and in moving the scarf aside, the embroidery in the corner caught my sight. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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