embroideress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of embroideress
Example Sentences
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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 Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
Her mother had stitched and embroidered them herself; she had lavished on them all the delicacies of her art of embroideress, and all the embellishments of a robe for the good Virgin.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 Mrs. Hubert Barclay
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
There is no embroideress in the town to hold a candle to Martina.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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