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embroidery

Today it means: The art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. Full definition →

Middle French embrouderie

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Middle French · derived fromembrouderie
English todayembroidery

From Middle French embrouderie, from embrouder + -erie. By surface analysis, embroider + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.