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Meanings of embroidery in inglês
Creative work made using embroidery techniques.
Art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.
Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail.
Usage of embroidery in inglês
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.
6
Olivia had let the bit of embroidery rest idly in her lap.
7
The rest of the day she looks at picture-books and works embroidery.
8
The furniture followed the universal fashion of horse-hair, mahogany, and wool embroidery.
9
The embroidery about the neck of her Indian robe is of pearls.
10
No lady-like embroidery and arranged marriages for her, thank you very much.
11
Some of the ladies at court taught me to do old-fashioned embroidery.
12
The green sofa and its sateen cushions were stiff with applied embroidery.
13
The walls were covered with Chinese silk and heavy panels of embroidery.
14
Her hands began to pluck nervously at the embroidery of her dress.
15
The embroidery is partly solid and partly outline, very fine and delicate.
16
Next she wanted one taken in a plain gown, without any embroidery.
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Embroidery through the time
Embroidery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common