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embroideress

[ em-broi-der-is ]

noun

  1. a woman who embroiders.


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Gender Note

See -ess.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of embroideress1

First recorded in 1715–25; embroider + -ess
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The orchestra struck up the opening bars, and the youth, without turning his eyes from the door, encircled the waist of the embroideress and dashed rapidly into the centre of the room.

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Do�a Paula declared she must have done so; the embroideress wept, and there was a regular scene.

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Different qualities of this material will be suggested to the embroideress by her needs; but, before passing to other things, I should not omit mention of the charming linen woven at Langdale.

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This task completed, she held out no longer; they bore the embroideress too to her rest, and granted her her last petition, to be buried at the feet of him she loved.

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Lady Welby, herself an accomplished embroideress, had the courage to face all the difficulties of such an undertaking.

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