embroideress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of embroideress
Example Sentences
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As an embroideress there were few more delicately trained eyes and defter hands than hers in England.
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
When Majendie sent Maggie Forrest's handiwork to Mrs. Ransome, with a kind note recommending the little embroideress, by that innocent good deed he woke the sleeping dogs of destiny.
From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May
She was laid by for three months; work was slack for her husband; her own earnings, for she was a skilled embroideress working for a great linen-shop in the Rue Vivienne, were no longer forthcoming.
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The orchestra struck up the opening bars, and the youth, without turning his eyes from the door, encircled the waist of the embroideress and dashed rapidly into the centre of the room.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
She finally, it seems, became in a degree tranquillized, found her way to Paris, and there she supported herself by her extraordinary skill as an embroideress.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)
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