Art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.
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The innocent embroidery sampler has developed a serious attitude in recent years.
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He smoked contemplatively; she stitched at the inevitable embroidery of the period.
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Practically the same thing went on in the lace and embroidery departments.
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All the jewels of the sea worked in with embroidery adorned them.
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So are the tattoo and embroidery designs described in a previous chapter.
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I would've sat embroidering poorly by candlelight, thinking impure thoughts about wenches.
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Majestic shoulders also dominated the daytime looks along with colorful jewel embroidering.
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Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering.
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There I saw four and twenty damsels, embroidering satin at a window.
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He awoke to see someone sitting in a patch of moonlight, embroidering.
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The latter fact might lead the observer to conclude that the art of embroidery and cloth decoration originated outside the tribe.