embroideress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of embroideress
Example Sentences
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She is an excellent dressmaker and embroideress; very poor, and quite willing, I am sure, to go into the country.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
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
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.
Both looked at the embroideress, who raised her head, and seeing that the conversation was about her, she made a face.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
Why, then, had this skilful embroideress deliberately threaded her needle with a shade of brilliant blue silk?
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
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