broidery

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Noun

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broidery (countable and uncountable, plural broideries)

  1. (archaic) embroidery
    • 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
      the golden broidery tender Milkah wove
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. [], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, [], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 145:
      The lamp stood on the table, and Carrara leant by the huge tome spread out before him; and opposite sat Beatrice, bending over her broidery—the small head, with its rich knot of gathered hair, so exquisitely placed—the slender figure, so graceful in its attitude.

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