embroidery
embroidery Lexical Profile
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• noun
The art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn in ornamental stitches, often incorporating pearls, beads, or sequins.
"She learned traditional floral embroidery from her grandmother and spent winter evenings stitching linen tablecloths."
Ornamental needlework or a piece of fabric decorated with stitched designs.
"The museum displayed a sixteenth-century velvet cloak adorned with intricate gold embroidery."
Fanciful, exaggerated, or fictitious details added to a story or account to make it more interesting.
"Stripped of his usual rhetorical embroidery, the witness's account of the incident was actually quite brief."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman French 'embroderie', from Old French 'embroder' (to embroider), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to 'border' (since decorative stitching was originally worked along the edges of garments).