stitchedadj.
/stɪtʃt/ In senses of the verb: esp.
a. Embroidered, worked with ornamental stitches.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > embroidered
steveneda1000
beatena1300
browdedc1386
forbroidena1400
beatc1400
browdenc1425
broideringa1450
brusitc1450
surfleda1529
whipped1548
broidered1560
needle-wrought1562
brawded1572
resplaid1575
stitched1582
embroidered1591
braided1758
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Evj v Stiched cloth to woork on the elle xx.d.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H7v A stitch'd Taffata cloake.
1624 J. Taylor Praise Cleane Linnen in Wks. (1630) ii. 168/1 Ruffes..the plaine, the stich'd, the lac'd, and shagge.
1713 in J. O. Halliwell Some Acct. Coll. Bills (1852) 37 Paid for a box and cord to send ye stiched gowne and coate 00 01 02.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 428 Table-cloths were adorned with stitched scrolls.
b. Of a book or pamphlet: Fastened with stitches; in early use = sewed adj.; in present use, fastened together by a thread or wire which passes through all the sections at once.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > stitched
stitched1658
sewed1766
broché1889
overcasting1901
saddle-stitched1903
1658 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 264 To Godwin for stitched bookes, 4s.
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 131 He wrote a stich't treatise of mines.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 66 'Tis not much to be question'd but of all Modern Pamphlets,..the English sticht Sermons to be the most Edifying, Useful and Instructive.
1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 5 The Author of a Three-penny stitcht Book.
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