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embroiderer

American  
[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

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

Mr Day said embroiderer Jenny King had "worked for over 200 hours to hand embellish the suit with more than 15,000 pearls, beads and gems with sun, moon and star motifs".

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

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

The grisette is a milliner, or laundress, or dressmaker, or embroiderer, or burnisher, or stringer of pearls, or something else—but she has a trade.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

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