Definition of Embroidering

1. Verb. (present participle of embroider) ¹

2. Noun. An embroidered decoration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embroidering

1. embroider [v] - See also: embroider

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroidering

embrocate
embrocated
embrocates
embrocating
embrocation
embrocations
embroglio
embroglios
embroider
embroidered
embroiderer
embroiderers
embroideress
embroideresses
embroideries
embroidering (current term)
embroiderings
embroiders
embroidery
embroidery frame
embroidery hoop
embroidery needle
embroil
embroiled
embroiler
embroilers
embroiling
embroilment
embroilments
embroils

Literary usage of Embroidering

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

1. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by DAVID. BREMNER (1869)
"The Egyptians acquired great celebrity in the art of embroidering the linen ... The Egyptians, indeed, would appear to have had a passion for embroidering, ..."

2. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by David Bremner (1869)
"The Egyptians acquired great celebrity in the art of embroidering the linen ... The Egyptians, indeed, would appear to have had a passion for embroidering, ..."

3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... witness a pair of my wife's grandfather's, richly embroidered upon black silk, and a deeper gold fringe, the embroidering reaches above the elbow."—Mia. ..."

4. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward R. Carter (1894)
"Miss Johnson is an expert in artistic needle work, and all her spare moments are utilized in fine lace-making and embroidering. She displays fine musical ..."

5. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1841)
"... the thick spreading of the threads, and by the embroidering art they adorn all the woven work with various groups of images.'"1 Edward the Elder had his ..."

6. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"References to dyeing, weaving, embroidering, etc., in- the ancient laws regulating Distress ; objects connected with those arts for the recovery of which ..."

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