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Meanings of embroidery frame in English

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A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering.

Synonyms
Examples for "tambour"
Examples for "tambour"
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Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore?
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2
Lady Maria never lifted up her eyes from her tambour-frame.
The Virginians
3
Remember that everything is to be tambour work, not smooth.
Poor Folk
4
Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings.
A Book of Scoundrels
5
A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
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Others were knitting, or working with needle and embroidery hoop.
The great hunt
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She composed herself quickly and took up her embroidery hoop.
Oracle's Queen
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But here I am holding something called an embroidery hoop.
The Guardian
4
He would have liked better to see her in the shade with an embroidery hoop.
The Fighting Shepherdess
5
You can change thread without moving embroidery hoop.
Wired
Usage of embroidery frame in English
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The refection, the embroidery frame, the closheys, filled up the hours.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 08
2
Near the window, at an embroidery frame, sat a young lady, her ward.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
3
Le Grange lay an embroidery frame, the needle set in a puffy red peony.
The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Gra...
4
While he was there he made her an embroidery frame.
The Beginner's American History
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Ourïeda was in bed, and Taous sat by the open door with an embroidery frame.
A Soldier of the Legion
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It circled three times about the Princess's head and then alighted on the embroidery frame.
The Laughing Prince: Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
7
An embroidery frame was before her, but the flowers grew but slowly beneath her hand.
The Vale of Cedars; Or, The Martyr
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Strickland, who had left the hall, returned and placed her embroidery frame for Mrs. Jardine.
Foes
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Greta was sitting at her embroidery frame as usual.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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Then one day Mrs. Greene busted her embroidery frame--
Carl and the Cotton Gin
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The pretty embroidery frame met the same indignity.
The Dragon Painter
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Then she would return to her embroidery frame.
The Lily of the Valley
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They lisped like females at an embroidery frame.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
14
The other three ladies were each seated at an embroidery frame in the embrasures of the windows.
Chateau and Country Life in France
15
Eudora carelesssly tossed the mantle over her embroidery frame, from which it trailed along the dusty floor.
Philothea: A Grecian Romance
16
The Indian girl carries them with her everywhere, as her more civilised sister carries an embroidery frame.
The Silent Places