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Embroidered samplers and the like
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stitchery
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Word definitions for stitchery in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from stitch (v.) + -ery .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. fine work done by stitching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stitchery \Stitch"er*y\, n. Needlework; -- in contempt. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. needlework that involves sewing; "she put her sewing back in the basket" [syn: sewing ]
Usage examples of stitchery.
She could read, write, walk, busy herself with stitchery, play at battledore and shuttlecock with Torquil, or loiter her time away.
I stared at my stitchery, willing my tears to dry before they fell and blotched the fine linen.
Miss Arabella, her stitchery lying neglected on the table before, sat Miss Sophia, reading aloud from another volume of this instructive periodical.
She found her workbag to hand and busied herself with laying out her stitchery.
So Jacky told her nothing about hobs or gruagaghs, stitcheries, giants or the Wild Hunt.
Jacky could turn, before she could put proper use to the swiftness stitcheries that Finn had sewn into her sneakers, they were upon her.
Much care and choice had gone into that stitchery, as if it were indeed a labour of love.