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broider

American  
[broi-der] / ˈbrɔɪ dər /

verb (used with object)

  1. to embroider.


broider British  
/ ˈbrɔɪdə /

verb

  1. (tr) an archaic word for embroider

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Etymology

Origin of broider

1400–50; late Middle English, variant of browder, Middle English broide ( n ), browde ( n ) (past participle, taken as infinitive of braid ( def. ) ) + -er 6


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I will broider in thy saddle colors fair to see, Sleep, my child, my little darling, sleep, I sing to thee.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

Oh! wise Penelope Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone, If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!

From Cyrano De Bergerac by Mary F. Guillemard

“But I am sure the woman who can broider like this, is clever enough to make a row of harebells and ferns!”

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt

It was a fair and noble maid, She dwelt in her father's hall; Both linen and silk did she broider and braid, Yet found in it solace small.

From The Feast at Solhoug by William Archer

Gray mosses broider it where the sun lies, and dark green where the water drips.

From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm

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