embroideress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of embroideress
Example Sentences
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They sabre at her own home, 240, Rue Saint Martin, a poor embroideress, Mdlle.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor
This task completed, she held out no longer; they bore the embroideress too to her rest, and granted her her last petition, to be buried at the feet of him she loved.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul
Idle she was not, she never lacked occupations; her reading, her music, her sewing, for she was a skilled embroideress, more than filled her leisure hours.
From East of the Shadows by Barclay, Hubert, Mrs.
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)
There is no embroideress in the town to hold a candle to Martina.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
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