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
Example Sentences
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The young queen took up a piece of tapestry, and began to broider with an affectation of tranquillity her trembling fingers contradicted.
From Louise de la Valliere by Dumas père, Alexandre
"I'll broider with my spray Stone bridge and granite quay, And bear great ships away Unto the long wide sea."
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes
Gray mosses broider it where the sun lies, and dark green where the water drips.
From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian
“But I am sure the woman who can broider like this, is clever enough to make a row of harebells and ferns!”
From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah
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 Guillemard, Mary F.
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