broidery

American  

[broi-der-ee] / ˈbrɔɪ dər i /

noun

broideries plural

1. Archaic. embroidery, or any embellishment likened to embroidery.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• broideries
  plural

Example Sentences

If she would have broidery silks, or flowers, or any sort of women’s toys, she hath but to say, and my Lady my mother shall ride to Derby for them.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

The Romance is in rondo form with love-lorn iteration of themes and intermezzo, and deftest broidery, the whole ending, after a graceful Recollection, in a bliss of harmony.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Tanned and bleached to the whiteness of a wedding glove, with some ornamental stitching and broidery, it furnishes a foot gear, alike comfortable and becoming.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

The broidery of pink flax and yellow chrysanthemums and white marguerites still follows us; but now the wider stretches of thistles and burdocks and daturas and cockleburs and water-plantains seem to be more important.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

In place of Scotch kerseys, his square, massive figure is set off with the golden broidery of a diplomat.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.