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emˈbroiderer
[f. embroider v. + -er.]
1. One who embroiders.
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxxvii. (1483) 84 More necessary to the land is..a deluer than a goldsmyth or a embrawderer. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1342 A Flemish imbroitherer had..advertised him. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6171/9 Mary Bird..Imbroiderer. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 39 She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 244 The arts of the..embroiderer will have to be set in motion.
2. fig.; cf. embroider v. 2 c.
16..North Life Qvoniambec (R.), This embroiderer..has stuffed his writings with..lies. |