The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broidery \Broid"er*y\, n. Embroidery. [Archaic]
The golden broidery tender Milkah wove.
--Tickell.
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n. (context archaic English) embroidery
Usage examples of "broidery".
Enjoying the bustle and color, she worked her way to the section where the bolts of silk and avrishum, brocades and broideries were, loving the sheen and shimmer of them.
THE CHIEF DRAPER Have me not Indian carpets dark as wine, Turbans and sashes, gowns and bows and veils, And broideries of intricate design, And printed hangings in enormous bales?
Maria comes and goes--will sit awhile Over her broidery, then will haste away And serve us with a dish of golden fruit.
Common ideas of necessity form the groundwork for the broidery of our advanced thought.
He covers his bristling broadcloths and his meagre silks with the golden broidery of Oriental praises, and as he talks, along with the slow and graceful waving of his arms, he lifts his undulating periods, upholds and poises them well, till they have gathered their weight and their strength, and then hurls them bodily forward with grave, momentous swing.
Her hands it was whose patient skill could trace The finest broidery, weave the costliest lace.
Now, when I was in my chamber, what saw I there but a dress of very costly blue raiment with gold-work broidery and a lovely circlet of gold, and gold bracelets set with stones of turquoise, and a basket of gold woven wire, wherein were toys, wondrous ones--soldiers that cut off each other's heads and put them on again, springing antelopes, palm-trees that turned to fountains, and others.
He covers his bristling broadcloths and his meagre silks with the golden broidery of Oriental praises, and as he talks, along with the slow and graceful waving of his arms, he lifts his undulating periods, upholds and poises them well, till they have gathered their weight and their strength, and then hurls them bodily forward with grave, momentous swing.
Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.