| 单词 | embroidery |
| 释义 | embroidery (once / 1149 pages) n Embroidery is the act of decorating a piece of cloth with a stitched design. You may have seen large medieval examples of embroidery hanging on the walls of museums depicting flowers and wild animals and the like. Embroidery also has a common figurative meaning of something deceptive, or an excessive and unnecessary detail designed to mislead, or simply something vain and foolish (see embellishment.) The great American designer Buckminster Fuller summed up this sense of the word nicely: "Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery." WORD FAMILYembroidery: embroideries+/embroider: embroidered, embroiderer, embroidering, embroiders, embroidery/embroiderer: embroiderers USAGE EXAMPLESShe sells them shoes and traditional glitzy, long chiffon suits, bedazzled with jewels and embroidery. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The brand partnered with an Austin, Texas-based collective called Fort Lonesome to do the custom embroidery on the personalization tour. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) The designs evoked the “Cafe Society” evening dresses once worn at the storied hotel - with glimmering embroideries, sunray pleats and marabou and ostrich feathers. Washington Times(Dec 06, 2016) 1n decorative needlework Syn|Hypo|Hyper fancywork candlewick loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern crewelworkembroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn cross-stitchembroidery done with pairs of stitches that cross each other cutworkembroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away drawnworkornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns faggoting, fagotingembroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches hemstitchembroidery similar to drawnwork needlepoint, needlepoint embroideryembroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry samplera piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches smockingembroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches gros pointneedlepoint embroidery done with large stitches petit pointneedlepoint done with small stitches needlecraft, needlework a creation created or assembled by needle and thread 2n elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail Syn|Hyper embellishment elaboration, enlargement, expansion a discussion that provides additional information |
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