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embroiderer

American  
[em-broi-der-er] / ɛmˈbrɔɪ dər ər /

noun

plural

embroiderers
  1. a person who embroiders, especially one who does so skillfully or professionally.


Example Sentences

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In the country's center, in the village of San Isidro Buen Progreso, lives another embroiderer whose services the president has enlisted.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

The embroiderer then cut the satin ribbons at precise angles to correspond with the pattern and secured the ribbons onto the fabric by hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

A professional hand embroiderer has been commissioned to design gold embroidery onto a rare Napoleonic military jacket.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2022

For our part, we are helped by labels by Young Yang Chung, New York-based embroiderer and textile scholar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2018

No chronology was followed, the embroiderer having chosen her scenes at pleasure or as the exigencies of space demanded.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton