fancywork
ornamental needlework.
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How to use fancywork in a sentence
She lives alone in a little house with a green yard, and keeps a fancywork and millinery store.
Song of the Lark | Willa CatherWhy will dear old ladies cherish these household monsters, festooning them with ribbons and fancywork?
Bizarre | Lawton MackallAnd indeed even as his eyes fell upon my fancywork he seemed to take a new lease of life.
It Pays to Smile | Nina Wilcox PutnamShe was not allowed to go to parties, and she had to learn all kinds of fancywork and cooking, and making sauces and everything.
A Little Girl in Old Washington | Amanda M. DouglasI think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancywork best.
Anne Of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery
British Dictionary definitions for fancywork
/ (ˈfænsɪˌwɜːk) /
any ornamental needlework, such as embroidery or crochet
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