broider

present singular third person broiders · participle present broidering · participle past broidered · past broidered

1. archaicTo embroider.

   [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.

   1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30

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   ‘When I was a little child [...] the cardinal brought me a doll. It was an image of myself, in a robe all broidered over with the arms of England and France.’

   2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 87