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Meanings of fancywork in English
Synonyms
Examples for "embroidery"
Examples for "embroidery"
1
The innocent embroidery sampler has developed a serious attitude in recent years.
2
He smoked contemplatively; she stitched at the inevitable embroidery of the period.
3
Practically the same thing went on in the lace and embroidery departments.
4
All the jewels of the sea worked in with embroidery adorned them.
5
So are the tattoo and embroidery designs described in a previous chapter.
Usage of fancywork in English
1
I have a lot of nice new patterns in fancywork for you.
2
What you ought to do, dear, is try a bit of fancywork yourself.
3
For the most of the time Mrs. Stanhope and Mrs. Laning did fancywork.
4
She looked most attractive, her small smooth head bent over some sort of fancywork.
5
Mrs. Sefton nodded abstractedly above her fancywork.
6
Often the mothers brought their fancywork and sat on the shady side of the tent during the lesson.
7
She lives alone in a little house with a green yard, and keeps a fancywork and millinery store.
8
Some go to the fancywork department.
9
Y'u sit there in that chair, where I can see y'u doing that fancywork and I'll not say a word.
10
Did you bring your pet poodle and your fancywork, and those beautiful red and yellow socks you used to wear?
11
It's like fancywork-awfulfascinating-andonce you get started you don't want to stop till you get a whole field done.
12
"I took Madonna there on an occasion to gather the little shells for the fancywork the master makes."
13
"Chrysanthemum Breakfasts," "Bon Voyage Breakfast," "A Club Breakfast," "A Gypsy Tea," "Book Title Tea," "Fancywork Tea," "Valentine Tea," "Colonial Tea," etc.
14
I have a lot of nice new patterns in fancywork for you.
15
What you ought to do, dear, is try a bit of fancywork yourself.
16
For the most of the time Mrs. Stanhope and Mrs. Laning did fancywork.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Fancywork through the time