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  • noun needlework

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Examples

  • Chaucer mentioned it in his Canterbury Tales, and by the 1800s, there was a whole list of things that were unlucky to do on a Friday, including needleworking, writing letters, beginning a sea voyage, moving, getting married, and going to the doctor.

    Archive 2009-03-08 Bill Crider 2009

  • Women with baskets of bits and pieces; lace and ribbons, needleworking tools, trinkets, apples, strawberries, cherries or pears-

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The term came to denote any fancy needleworking, however.

    Women and Finance in the Early National U.S. 2000

  • Chaucer mentioned it in his Canterbury Tales, and by the 1800s, there was a whole list of things that were unlucky to do on a Friday, including needleworking, writing letters, beginning a sea voyage, moving, getting married, and going to the doctor.

    Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine 2009

  • I fill my time, instead, with renos and landscaping, needleworking (an old hobby, becoming new again), and any other thing I can find to hide from what my soul is trying to bring to the forefront.

    BC Bloggers 2009

  • I fill my time, instead, with renos and landscaping, needleworking (an old hobby, becoming new again), and any other thing I can find to hide from what my soul is trying to bring to the forefront.

    BC Bloggers 2009

  • I fill my time, instead, with renos and landscaping, needleworking (an old hobby, becoming new again), and any other thing I can find to hide from what my soul is trying to bring to the forefront.

    BC Bloggers 2009

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