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cornely|kɔːˈnɛlɪ, -ˈiːlɪ| Also cornelly, C-. Name of Émile Cornely, engineer, the first maker of the chain-stitch embroidery machine with universal feed invented by J. Bonnaz (cf. Bonnaz): used to designate the machine, the machinist using it, or the embroidery made. Hence corˈnelling, the making of embroidery with this machine.
1903Daily Chron. 27 Feb. 10/5 Bonnaz.—Few good Cornely hands..wanted. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §407 By hand or by cornely appliqué machine. Ibid., By cornely, singer or other machine. Ibid., Machinist, cornely or cornelly; cornelling machinist; cornely hand. 1952C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing 294 Cornelly, an embroidery of lacy design made by the Cornelly machine on a vanishing cloth which is afterwards removed, leaving the embroidery. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage ii. 51 Trade machines on which chain stitch and a free satin stitch can be worked (the Cornely and the Irish Machines). |