Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who embroiders; an embroiderer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic One who embroiders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic One who
embroiders .
Etymologies
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broider + -er
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Examples
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Jonathan Shakespeare, citizen and _broiderer_ of London, April 7, 1725.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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Court broiderer, with cross-keys; John Morstowe, the luminer, or illuminator of books, with a rose; Lionel de Ferre, the French baker, with a vine; Herman Goldsmith, the Court goldsmith, who bore a dolphin;
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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