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Definition: Embroidered |
EmbroideredAdjective1. Adorned with embroidery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "embroidered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Crosswords: Embroidered |
| English words defined with "embroidered": Altar cloth, Auriphrygiate ♦ Bewrought ♦ Cyclas ♦ Ephod ♦ Haikal, Hamburg edging ♦ monogram ♦ nammad, needlepoint, numdah, numdah rug ♦ orphrey ♦ Purfled, Purflew ♦ Zephyr shawl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "embroidered": Apelles ♦ Coat of many Colours, Crutched Friars ♦ Kerchief of Plesaunce ♦ SCALLOP CUTTER, MACHINE, Standards ♦ urban legend. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "embroidered": Embroider. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Silk embroidered tapestry featuring a photograph of Henry Rockwell Mousseau, his medals and an embroidered portrait of his ship, USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19). Cleveland served in the Far East during 1907-1910. Credit: NAVY. |  | Interior of San Xavier : a priest in embroidered vestments was exhorting them in Spanish. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chinese American child in embroidered jacket. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cotton stockings. Lana Turner inspecting the ankle-flattering bracelet design embroidered on dressy, fine point lisle cotton mesh hose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Religious vestements. Cross embroidered on cloth. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Voltaire | Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They thought everything of being pretty, they embroidered themselves, they empurpled themselves |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Bandeau tube dresses, hand-knitted dresses with embroidered flowers, bias-cutting, detachable straps and pockets, fluidity, multi-layered dresses, puffed sleeves. (references) | |
The plain white table linen with minimal woven or embroidered pattern is still predominant in hospitality applications (private as well as commercial) but is declining in importance. (references) | ||
It is important to note that typical German department stores do not offer a large variety of colors but rather different styles of towels (hand towel, towelette, wash cloth, beach towel, embroidered hand towel, washing mitt, etc.) in a smaller choice of colors. (references) | ||
Travel | Chad | Women's groups sell embroidered fabrics, tablecloths, and other handmade goods. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Embroidered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 61.90% of the time. "Embroidered" is used about 210 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 61.9% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 17.14% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.95% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 210 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "embroidered": be embroidered. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "embroidered": embroidered-yoke. | |
Ending with "embroidered": gold-embroidered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "embroidered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 绣 (Embroider, Embroidering). (various references) | |
Danish | broderet stof (embroidered fabrics). (various references) | |
Dutch | geborduurd weefsel (embroidered fabrics). (various references) | |
French | brodai, brodées, brodé, brodâmes, brodèrent, broda. (various references) | |
German | stickte, gestickt. (various references) | |
Greek | με κέντημα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"רקם (be devised, be embroidered, be formed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bordilan (embroidered object). (various references) | |
Italian | tessuto ricamato (embroidered fabrics). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 縫い紋 (embroidered crest), 縫い模様 (embroidered design). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬいも" (embroidered crest), ぬいもよう (embroidered design). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | embroidereday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tecido bordado (embroidered fabrics). (various references) | |
Spanish | tejido bordado (embroidered fabrics). (various references) | |
Turkmen | keюdeli. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | auratas, intextus, pictis, picturatus, plumaria, plumarii, plumario, plumarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "embroidered": reembroidered. (additional references) | |
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"Embroidered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emboldered, enbroidered, imbrodered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "embroidered" (pronounced embroy"derd) |
| 3 | -d er d | bewildered, blundered, bordered, considered, laundered, disordered, engendered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, hindered, meandered, murdered, nonstandard, ordered, pandered, plundered, pondered, powdered, reconsidered, rendered, shouldered, shuddered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, surrendered, tendered, thundered, unhindered, wandered, wondered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-i-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: embordered, reembodied. | |
-2 letters: broidered, embroider. | |
-3 letters: bordered, embodied, embodier, emborder, rebodied, reedbird, remedied. | |
-4 letters: beerier, bemired, berimed, berried, breeder, broider, bromide, debride, deedier, derider, dermoid, emeroid, ordered, rebored, rebreed, redbird, redried, reedier, remorid. | |
-5 letters: bedder, bedrid, bemire, berime, bidder, birded, birder, bireme, birred, bodied, border, boride, bromid, deemed, demode, demoed, deride, dormer, dormie, eerier, emerod. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-i-m-o-r-r" | |
+2 letters: reembroidered. | |
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