Definition of Cutworks

1. Noun. (plural of cutwork) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cutworks

1. cutwork [n] - See also: cutwork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutworks

cutto
cuttoe
cuttoes
cutty
cutty stool
cuttystool
cuttystools
cutup
cutups
cutwal
cutwals
cutwork
cutworks (current term)
cutworm
cutworms
cuvee
cuvees
cuvet
cuvette
cuvette oximeter
cuvettes
cuz
cuzticite
cuzzes
cvniti
cwm
cwms

Literary usage of Cutworks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors; an Account of the Different Styles of by Margaret Jourdain (1908)
"In 1635 a royal proclamation, having for its object the protection of home fabrics, prohibited the use of foreign cutworks, and ordered all ..."

2. A History of Lace by Bury Palliser (1869)
"... with cutworks. ... I. •* " This comes of wearing Scarlet, gold lace and cutworks; your line ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"Now for women, instead of laborious studies, they have curious needleworks, cutworks, spinning, ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... cutworks, nor conceits. He set the shippes, of merchantmen on worke, With bringing home, oyle, graine, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... mention the fine "cutworks" and "points" of Italy, and no one had more of them than Queen Elizabeth. She also patronized fine Flemish lace. ..."

6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"Now for women, instead of laborious studies, they have curious needleworks, cutworks, spinning, ..."

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