What's the difference between embellishment and embroidery?

Embellishment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
  • (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
  • (2) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
  • (3) Hunt embellished it with a sad little joke about his repeated failure to interest James in his own pet projects: superfast broadband and local TV.
  • (4) There were occasional literal and verbal paraphasic errors, but no completion phenomenon, embellishment or significant echolalia.
  • (5) But the main focus will be attempts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks along the lines of the 2002 Saudi initiative, as developed recently by King Abdullah of Jordan and embellished by Obama.
  • (6) By now, Galeano had an established voice as a writer, and he soon settled down to write a series of books that embellished the formula that had proved so successful with Open Veins, combining contemporary observations with historical anecdote.
  • (7) So if he embellished this, how can you believe the rest?
  • (8) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
  • (9) Thus both the selective loss of entire branches and the selective embellishment of others occur during the development of these somatosensory cortical structures.
  • (10) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
  • (11) He embellished the party line with his own metaphors and rhetorical swirls.
  • (12) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
  • (13) Survival and event-free rates in long-term follow-up period were markedly embellished by the types of prosthesis.
  • (14) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
  • (15) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
  • (16) The club denied it and a Ukip spokesman said he had played for the Tranmere schoolboy and youth teams, adding that the embellishment was an “innocent mistake” by a press officer.
  • (17) Third, the argument is embellished with emotive claims about how this ruling will fragment, chill, choke, censor, or somehow damage the internet.
  • (18) The embellishment comes from telling it over and over again, letting your brain seek out the funny.
  • (19) West Ham came close to embellishing their lead on the half-hour when Vaz Tê skittered down the right and cut the ball back to O'Neil, whose curling shot from the edge of the area forced a fine save from Marshall.
  • (20) He appears to be intolerant of workers who choose to embellish their bodies with works of art, however small or innocuous.

Embroidery


Definition:

  • (n.) Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
  • (n.) Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
  • (2) The organisation trains over 400 prisoners in embroidery skills annually in around 29 UK jails.
  • (3) Her Thread Squirrel embroidery business was booming over Christmas and now January is busier than the 51-year-old was expecting.
  • (4) The solderers showed no apparent abnormalities in comparison with the embroidery workers.
  • (5) In embroidery there was just one designer and 10 interns."
  • (6) They described the claim that interns formed a large part of the workforce in the pattern-making and embroidery departments as "untrue and incredible" and pointed out that such assertions "betrayed a complete ignorance of Alexander McQueen's employee structure", which includes a substantial design team in London supplemented by several freelance technicians and about 60 employees in Italy, and a number of subcontractors who undertake creative and production tasks.
  • (7) For SS13, the boys are being inspired by: "the 1980s, detectives, Miami Vice, tapestries and embroidery, pastels, florals and Grandma".
  • (8) But the pièce de résistance was the trim on the jacket, which was made up of 20 or 30 matchbox-sized toy cars, reappropriated as shiny black embroidery.
  • (9) See the children stitching the fine embroidery and beading?
  • (10) The V&A’s autumn exhibition Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery , will be the first in more than half a century devoted to this beautiful embroidery work, coveted by kings and popes – and for the first time in decades, the museum has dared to use Latin in an exhibition title.
  • (11) Most models wore boots, some thigh-high and embellished with embroidery, and all were dripping in gold jewellery.
  • (12) Raisa, three years into a seven-year sentence, told me that she was a sociable person on the outside but that in the colony she just wanted to withdraw: "I usually try to hide behind a book or embroidery or I try to escape to somewhere.
  • (13) According to fashion forecasting agency Editd, the current trends most likely to continue to boom next year include experimental textures, such as embossing and embroidery, and floral prints.
  • (14) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
  • (15) Almost 200 women, who previously worked as manual scavengers in the town, have been rehabilitated and trained as beauticians or in food processing, sewing or embroidery.
  • (16) You could also buy gold or marble busts of the chairman, tapes of his speeches, fine embroideries of his countenance, and coins, stamps, ballpoints, pencils, cigarette lighters, key rings, CDs, T-shirts and teacups, all with Mao's image on.
  • (17) Some merchants visiting London from Iceland were equally dazzled, and commissioned embroideries of Icelandic saints in gold on crimson velvet, which they gave to their local church in northern Iceland.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Intricate embroidery adorns a large ecclesiastical piece.
  • (19) There are many more beautiful objects than two frayed and faded pieces of embroidery, in the first exhibition in a lifetime at the V&A of a medieval art form in which England once led the world.
  • (20) Watson's internship in 2009-10 included drawing artwork for embroidery, repairing embellished clothing, and dyeing large quantities of fabric.