broidery
noun
embroidery, or any embellishment likened to embroidery.
broideries
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pluralof broidery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream Of modern life, find solace in your tarnished broideries.
From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell
Nor less Andromache, sore grieved to part, Rich raiment fetches, wrought with golden thread, And Phrygian scarf, and still with bounteous heart Loads him with broideries.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
The great hall received you with a statelier formality than before; for it, too, had received also its gift of painting, and its golden broideries.
From The Allen House by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Forget not your employ, A floor of crimson broideries to spread For the King's path.
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
And after church, when mass is done, The people to the nave repair Round the tomb to stray; And marvel at the Forms of stone, And praise the chisell'd broideries rare— Then they drop away.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
