embroidery
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Searchable Lemmata: embroidure (AF), embrouderie (ME), embroudatio (L), embroidery (MdE).
Alternate Forms: enbraudacione.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Decoration;
embroidering, the art or act of ornamenting fabric with needlework; also, the product of embroidering, needlework ornamentation in fabric; a piece of embroidered cloth or an embroidered garment.(ante 1393 still in current use)
2. Et l’ embroidure de mesme le hallyng ount faitz Johan C. ... Item pur ground lyne et hokis a le chambring dez Moris Hedis – iiij d. E pur le fesure du dit chambring et binding de le doser et coster de le hallyng ...
Accounts.
[AND Mch Tayl Accs (6 Hen V) circa 1418/1419]
3. singule ... mistere per se cum diversis signis et inbroudacionibus de sericao ... artes suas exprimentibus ... sunt *distincit [l. distincte]
[DMLBS MGL (III app. 458) 1432]
4. remitto eisdem expensas per me factas super empcione unius pecie veluti rubei una cum enbraudacione pecie predicte
Accounts.
[DMLBS Reg. Cant. (II 580) 1441]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Cf. embroider. British Latin forms (embroudatio, etc.) from 1432 and following.
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