Meanings
nounbroidery (countable and uncountable, plural broideries)
plural broideries
- archaiccountableuncountableembroidery
the golden broidery tender Milkah wove
1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens1 more example
The lamp stood on the table, and Carrara leant by the huge tome spread out before him; and opposite sat Beatrice, bending over her broidery—the small head, with its rich knot of gathered hair, so exquisitely placed—the slender figure, so graceful in its attitude.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 145
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