Embroidery

Definitions: Embroidery

Embroidery

Noun

1. Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings".

2. Decorative needlework.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "embroidery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Embroidery

Adjunct

Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.

Exaggeration

Noun: exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry

Ornament

Embroidery; brocade, brocatelle, galloon, lace, fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming; hanging, tapestry, arras; millinery, ermine; drap d'or.

Crosswords: Embroidery

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Tulle, Lace, Embroidery, Ribbons, and Other Small Wares in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Tulle, Lace, Embroidery, Ribbons, and Other Small Wares Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Tulle, Lace, Embroidery, Ribbons, and Other Small Wares Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Tulle, Lace, Embroidery, Ribbons, and Other Small Wares: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Embroidery Machine Essentials: Basic Techniques (Jeanine Twigg's Companion Project Series) (reference)

• Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches (reference)

• Royal School of Needlework: Embroidery Techniques (reference)

• The Machine Embroidery Handbook (reference)

• The Techniques of Japanese Embroidery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Creative Machine Embroidery (reference)

• Embroidery (reference)

• Embroidery Business News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Silk Ribbon Embroidery (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Macho Embroidery (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Simplicity SE3 Embroidery System (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

At Reichenau he had given lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did sewing and embroidery.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Handcrafted embroidery with geometric and floral patterns is also very popular. (references)

Trends in this segment include embroidery, braided patterns and multi-colored jacquards. (references)

Economic History

Romania

The traditional folk arts, including dance, wood carving, ceramics, weaving and embroidery of costumes and household decorations, and fascinating folk music, still flourish in many parts of the country. (references)

Travel

Chad

The Mission de Kabalaye on Avenue Bokassa sells embroidery from the Tibesti region. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "embroidery": embroidery frame ♦ embroidery hoop ♦ embroidery machine ♦ embroidery needle. Additional references.

Beginning with "embroidery": embroidery-edged, embroidery-frame.

Albanian

zbukurim (adornment, beautifying, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, fallal, festoon, finery, flower, garnish, garniture, glorification, inlay, marquetry, onlay, ornament, ornamentation, rosace, set off, titivation), qëndistari, qëndisje (broidery, fancywork, needlework, work). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تطريز (brocade, fancywork, needleful, needlework), ‏زخرفة (adornment, blazonry, decor, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, fussiness, garniture, illustration, ornament, ornamentation, ornateness, scenery, scroll), ‏زركش (braid, brocade, primp), ‏شىء مطرز. (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсяване (adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornamentation, titivation), украса (adornment, decking, decoration, dressing, embellishment, flower, fretwork, gilding, ornament, set off, trappings), бродерия (broidery, fancy work, fancywork, needlework, stitchery, work). (various references)

Chinese 

黹 , 刺繡�"� , 刺绣 (Embroideries). (various references)

Czech

výšivka (fancywork). (various references)

Danish

broderi. (various references)

Dutch

borduursel. (various references)

Farsi 

قلابدوزی (Crochet, Crocket, Patchwork). (various references)

Finnish

koruompelu (fancy needle-work), kirjonta. (various references)

French

broderie (embroideries). (various references)

German

stickerei (embroidering). (various references)

Greek 

κέντημα (needlecraft, prick, sampler). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" רקמ�" (brocade), תחרים (lace, needlework), רקימ�" (embroidering, weaving), רקום (embroidering). (various references)

Hungarian

kézimunka (handicraft, handwork, made by hand, manual labor, manual labour, needlework, tatting), hímzés (broidery, fancy work, needlework, woolwork). (various references)

Indonesian

bordil (bordello). (various references)

Italian

ricamo (needlework). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縫い物 (needlework, sewing), 縫い取り , 縫い (sewing), フランス刺繍 , エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement), 刺繍 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フランスししゅう, ししゅう (booklet of essays, circumference, magazine, periphery, poetry anthology, putrid smell of a corpse), ぬいもの (needlework, sewing), ぬいとり, ぬい (sewing), エンブロイダリー . (various references)

Manx

grease (design, industry). (various references)

Norwegian

broderi. (various references)

Pig Latin

embroideryay

Portuguese

embelezar (accoutre, aggrandize, beautify, deck, dress, embellish, flatter, garnish, gloriole, grace period, ornamental, perk, prettify, sugar coat), rumor (bruit, buzz, dog-bee, drone, hearse, report, rumble, rumor, rumour, sound, susurration, umbrage, whispering), ponto reverso (purl), ponto de bordado (stitch), picote (pearls, perforation, perforator, purl, purls), murmúrio (babblement, brawl, breath, breeze, bubble, buzz, chatter, croon, groan, grumble, gurgle, murmur, mutter, purl, ripple, sough, susurration, whisper, whispering), canutilho (purl), bordadura (border, broidery, edge, frieze), bordados, bordado (broidery, chain stitch, motif, needlework), adorno (adornment, attire, braid, facing, finery, finesse, garniture, ornament, set off, tire). (various references)

Romanian

podoabe (array, finery), broderie (purl), brodare. (various references)

Russian 

вышивка (fancywork, fancy-work, purl). (various references)

Scottish

gréis , greus, broidneireachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vez (binding, needlework). (various references)

Spanish

bordado (embroider, fancywork, needlework). (various references)

Swedish

broderi (fancywork, fancy-work, needlework). (various references)

Turkish

süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), oya (lace, pinking), nakış, abartı (exaggeration, fustian, hyperbole, inflation, overstatement, trimmings). (various references)

Turkmen 

keюte, keзde, gaяma. (various references)

Ukranian 

вишивка (broidery, needlework, work), вишивання (fancywork, needlework), прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, beauty, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, pretty, quip, set off). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc thêu đ�" thêu đ�" trang trí phụ điều thêu dệt (broidery). (various references)

Welsh

brwydwaith. (various references)

Misspellings

"Embroidery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embroder, embrodery, embrodiery, embroidary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: embroider.

-2 letters: broidery, embodier, emborder, embryoid, reembody.

-3 letters: bemired, berimed, berried, broider, bromide, emeroid, rebored, remorid.

-4 letters: bemire, berime, birder, bireme, birred, border, boride, briery, bromid, dormer, dormie, embody, embryo, emerod, imbody, morbid, obeyed, obeyer, orbier, oreide, rebody, rebore, rebred, remedy, ribeye, yirred.

-5 letters: bedim, beery, berme, berry, bider, biome, bored, borer, brede, breed, bride, brier, brome, debye, demob, derby, derry, dimer, direr, dobie, dormy, drier, dryer, eider, embed, ember, emery, emyde, erode, erred, eyrie, eyrir, imbed, merde, merer, merry, mired, moire, myoid, omber, ombre, orbed, order, ormer, rebid, redry, redye, reedy, rider, rimed, rimer, robed.

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