broideries
- plural of broidery.
Example Sentences
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She therefore summoned to the castle the most skilful workers in silks and broideries, who toiled in her service day and night, that she might be richly adorned at the Royal Tournament.
From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian
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 Murray, Gilbert
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 Arnold, Matthew
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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
"June gives us wide green carpets and magnificent draperies of the same deep color, but her red and golden broideries are few; it is the hand of July that throws them in with rich profusion."
From After the Storm by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
