embroidered

comparative more embroidered · superlative most embroidered

1. Decorated with embroidery; covered in decorative needlework.

   Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.

   1850 July, "A New Yorker", “Sketches of American Society: A Wedding "Above Bleeker"”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 20, number 3, page 422

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   The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.

   1816, Miss Appleton, Elizabeth Lachlan, Edgar: A National Tale, page 65

   Luis de Avila and Lope de Soria often mention her in their letters; so for example, Avila: "I came to Correggio, where I had Luncheon. I saw Veronica in bed, with a very ornamental night-cap and a very embroidered coverlet."

   2010, Hayward Keniston, Francisco de los Cobos: Secretary of the Emperor Charles V, page 135

2. Embellished; elaborate, especially when containing superfluous or fictitious details.

   That is not a very embroidered account of an actual occurrence.

   1946 October, E. J. Bradshaw, “Military Geology and What it Means”, in Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume 76, number 325

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   The man of business at his desk, the mechanic in his workshop, the idler on his couch, the man of letters in his study, has but to turn for a brief interval to these Lives, and he will behold, for every period and age, the very embroidered and moving scene that he has been seeking to understand and to sympathise with, in a way, in so far as the effect and the cause are concerned, not unlike that which Shakspeare's historical plays, and Walter Scott's historical romances, produce upon the vivid imagination.

   1835, The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 298

   The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.

   1882 November 1, “Drama”, in The Artist, volume 3, number 35, page 352

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of embroider