embroidering
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Searchable Lemmata: embrouding (ME), inbrodyng (AF), imbrodering (OScots), embroidering (MdE).
Alternate Forms: embrawdynge.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(vn.)
Manufacture;
action of the verb embroider, the ornamenting fabric with needlework; also, the product of embroidering, needlework ornamentation in fabric; a piece of embroidered cloth or an embroidered garment.(circa 1400)
1. The firste synne ... is in superfluitee of clothynge ... nat oonly the cost of embrawdynge, the degise endentynge or barrynge, owndynge [vrr. owdyng, owndeynge], palynge, wyndynge or bendynge ... but ther is also costlewe furrynge in hire gownes
Poetic.
[MED Chaucer CT.Pars. ((Manly-Rickert) I.417) circa 1390]
2. Item paié pur xviij hodysz pur mynstrellez ou le mayr pur façoun et inbrodyng.
[AND Grocers (212)]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
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