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embroiderer

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[em-broi-der-er] / ɛmˈbrɔɪ dər ər /

noun

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


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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

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

But you try and make sure you have the crew you need specifically for each character: The embroiderer, and so on.

From Time Jul. 14, 2017

There is quite an epitome of little diapers in that fragment of needlework; and one can hardly doubt that the embroiderer found it great fun to contrive them.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle

Rather, she supports "the weavers, the embroiderers, all those who use backstrap looms in our country -- mostly women -- who are a source of national pride," the 63-year-old recently told journalists.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

The shutdown of Broadway and other live events created a devastating ripple effect on dozens of ancillary creative workers — seamstresses, embroiderers, beaders, cloth dyers, fabric pleaters.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2022

And there was less substantive coverage by a reporter smitten with the secretary of the French embroiderers union, Georgette Bouillot, who, according to the reporter, led Paris embroiderers on strikes.

From Washington Post Nov. 7, 2021

A two-year project by nine embroiderers to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath has gone on show in the Angus town.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2021

Older than the workers in wood, much older than those who carved in stone, are these island embroiderers.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

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