What is "appliqued"

Usage examples of "appliqued".

It was the same bright red as the skirt, with a design appliqued on it, and was surely far too young for her.

A woman in jeans and a green sweatshirt with a hedgehog appliqued to its front stood there.

She wore a simple yellow dress covered with appliqued violets, and over it a sky blue cloak with a silver lining, a saucy red wimple about her head.

On one of the rear pockets was an appliqued Smartass, and when she turned, Operation Carlsberg successfully completed, the little heart appliqued on the crotch fairly throbbed.

Maddyn could see that one of them was wearing, tied over his mail, a tabard appliqued with the red wyvern, a piece of clothing that identified him and his companion as speeded couriers.

She stroked a delicate satin butterfly appliqued on the back of a pair of French knickers, her objections suddenly silenced.

Her dress was magnificent in its originality: the main body of it was of pale blue silk, and embroidered and appliqued on the skirt were the Chinese men and women copied from the wallpaper in the big salon at Devereux House.

Her fan was originality itself, being composed of small silk flags, each with a different flower appliqued on them, all of them mounted in an exquisitely carved ivory clasp, decorated with silver.

Claudia had spent the whole of the previous month sewing pretty gingham curtains for it, complete with tie-backs and matching appliqued gingham cushions for the child-sized furniture.

A white cap appliqued with a big red diamond sat atop his wiry grey curls.