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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Against such odds the tiny fleet set sail; Yet gallantly and with heroic pride, Escutcheoned pavisades, emblazoned poops, Banners and painted shields and close-fights hung With scarlet broideries.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
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
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
Why strain thy sandal-string so hard? or why the daily change Of mantles, robes, and broideries, of fashions new and strange?
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
