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Meanings of fine embroidery in English

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Usage of fine embroidery in English
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The result was an openwork pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery.
The Land of Footprints
2
Before he'd looked up Audrey's address, he'd made her admire their fine embroidery.
Audrey's door
3
Otherwise their spare time is devoted to minutely fine embroidery.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
4
My work-box stood in its usual place, a bit of fine embroidery protruding from its lid.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
5
And Mademoiselle taught you to do fine embroidery.
Robin
6
She bent her head over the fine embroidery of a robe she was making for Mary.
The Trumpeter Swan
7
Brilliant blue and scarlet were the prevailing tones; a good deal of fine embroidery caught the eye.
By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
8
The blouse she wore was a superlative affair of lace and delicacy and tracings of fine embroidery.
The Heart of Arethusa
9
The makers of fine books or bindings or furniture, of fine embroidery and the like, are examples.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
10
His vest was of white satin, flowered and raised with a very fine embroidery of gold and silk.
Modern India
11
His coat and waistcoat were smothered in fine embroidery and he wore a flowing velvet robe trimmed with ermine.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
12
I did not reach her heights of fine embroidery, however; I never actually embroidered landscapes and figures, as she did.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
13
About the only thing Elise could do well was hem, leaving Mama and Marta to do the fine embroidery work.
Her mother's hope
14
She had two small children, and supported herself and them by fine embroidery, at which she worked nearly all the time.
Home Lights and Shadows
15
If I should come across any pretty china, or fine embroidery, in Japan, I shall not forget your passion for collecting.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
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When it grew too dark for the fine embroidery, she dropped it in her lap, and looked out at the wintry prospect.
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel
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