Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A method of decorating cloth by pulling out horizontal threads and tying the remaining vertical threads into hourglass-shaped bunches.
- noun A method of joining hemmed edges by crisscrossing thread over an open seam.
- noun A stitch in knitting that creates an open pattern.
- noun The decoration, seam, or pattern created by such a method or stitch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embroidery, an operation in which a number of threads in the material are drawn out, and a few of the cross - threads are fagoted, or tied together in the middle. This is continued until all the threads are tied into fagots. The term is also applied to a similar effect produced by knitting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
decoration of afabric achieved by removingthreads and tying others into bunches - noun the
joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches
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Examples
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Sometimes there was an overthrown nest like a sack of twigs turned out on the turf, such as the hedgers rake together after fagoting.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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Cheung's fascination with ancient building styles can be seen in the lavish use of symmetry, bias cutting, pleating, carving lace-trimming, fagoting, sequining and beading.
My Sinchew - 2008
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Milgrim’s signature looks typically included details of cross-stitch embroidery, bands of tucking, slot seaming, and fagoting.
Sally Milgrim. 2009
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"There's hemstitching and fagoting, but I don't know as it's any less work than ruffling.
A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
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