broider
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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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The notion that flowers broider or ornament the ground is common in poetry: comp.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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
She would have followed Bacon to the death, and sat up all night to broider herself a kerchief.
From The Heart's Highway by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
I will broider a bodice—the most beautiful; and you shall give it.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
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
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