embroidered

CEFRB2

/ɪmˈbɹɔɪdɚd/

adjective

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adjective
Decorated with patterns sewn onto cloth.
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adjective
Extra detail
Embellished; elaborate, especially when containing superfluous or fictitious details.

Examples

She embroidered her initials on a white handkerchief.
She embroidered her own initials on the white handkerchief.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

simple past and past participle of embroider
Decorated with embroidery; covered in decorative needlework.

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Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.
The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.
The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.

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She wore a silk dress blank with silver threads and tiny pearls.

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The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.
1816, Miss Appleton, Elizabeth Lachlan, Edgar: A National Tale, page 65
Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.
1850 July, "A New Yorker", “Sketches of American Society: A Wedding "Above Bleeker"”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 20, number 3, page 4...
Luis de Avila and Lope de Soria often mention her in their letters; so for example, Avila: "I came to Correggio, where I had Luncheon. I saw Veronica in bed, with a very ornamental night-cap and a very embroidered coverlet."
2010, Hayward Keniston, Francisco de los Cobos: Secretary of the Emperor Charles V, page 135
The man of business at his desk, the mechanic in his workshop, the idler on his couch, the man of letters in his study, has but to turn for a brief interval to these Lives, and he will behold, for every period and age, the very embroidered and moving scene that he has been seeking to understand and to sympathise with, in a way, in so far as the effect and the cause are concerned, not unlike that which Shakspeare's historical plays, and Walter Scott's historical romances, produce upon the vivid imagination.
1835, The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 298
The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.
1882 November 1, “Drama”, in The Artist, volume 3, number 35, page 352

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adjective

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She wore a silk dress blank— with silver threads and tiny pearls.

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She wore a silk dress blank with silver threads and tiny pearls.