(v. t.) To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the G20, the Met has issued more than 8,000 public order trained officers with embroidered epaulettes, which replace the traditional metal letters and numbers.
(2) Distinctive for its embroidered yellow plumage, the honeyeater is considered a “flagship” species: the most marketable of a group of endangered animals that share a habitat.
(3) [Officers had] the idea that if they embroidered the truth – and I put that mildly – then they could get the scalp of a Conservative cabinet minister of an administration with whom they were in conflict at the time.
(4) Sew the eyes using buttons, or alternatively you could just embroider them.
(5) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(6) Emma Elwick-Bates, Style editor at British Vogue and Glastonbury attendee – herself seeing out this year's festival in a navy Bedale Barbour, black Isabel Marant shorts embroidered with stars, vintage leather shorts and black Hunter wellingtons – has noticed the shift.
(7) Worn with smart culottes embroidered in vivid shades of pink and orange mixed with black, it looked more ready for a post-beach dinner on the Med than a gym session.
(8) Biographer Scott Anderson suggests sympathetically that Lawrence may have submitted to the rape to avoid further torture, and afterwards embroidered his tale with "the kind of violence that offers an absolution of guilt by making all questions of will or resistance moot".
(9) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(10) Chelsea will have a star embroidered on their shirts from now on, with this group of players and their interim first-team coach, Roberto Di Matteo, acknowledged as history makers.
(11) At the time, I thought this show was creepy as hell, with its weirdly obsessive celebration of “la famiglia” and “la mamma”, which, in fashion terms, meant having models carrying babies down the runway while wearing dresses embroidered with Clinton Cards-like slogans, such as “I love you, mamma!” and “Per la mamma piu bella del mondo!” (“For the most beautiful mother in the world!”) Now it turns out that the most offensive thing about this collection wasn’t that it looked like it heavily ripped off Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, which featured expressions of love from her children, but rather that it was an expression of Dolce and Gabbana’s hilariously anachronistic opinions about parenting.
(12) Brimming with the embroidered thrones and lacquered vases of despots and dictators, these are objects over which wars were fought, trade routes opened up and empires built, next to exquisite trinkets that sent their makers blind.
(13) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
(14) His economic logic was not embroidered with political poetry.
(15) Cooper had no middle name (nor did his twin brother, George) and, as he moved through a sporting life in post-war Britain that took him from south London to Buckingham Palace and many interesting places along the way, he embroidered the fight game with a dignity it did not always deserve.
(16) Everything in its interior – from the cabinets of shells and minerals to the paintings on the walls and the tapestries embroidered with his motto: “There is no wealth but life” – is an expression of this ultimate collector, a man who sought to catalogue our experience of the world and the way art attempts to portray it.
(17) Beach towels at the swanky Fontainebleau Hotel have been embroidered with the words ‘kiss me’ from one of her pieces in her honour.
(18) 'Flowers are the new slogans' The Christopher Kane sweatshirt embroidered with the word "flower" brings new meaning to the phrase: "Say it with flowers."
(19) The main melody was just three notes – C, D, E – with brass embroidered around it.
(20) Updated at 9.38pm GMT 9.32pm GMT Gold silverware doesn’t make any sense, but how wonderful are these plates: WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Gold cutlery and cloth napkins embroidered with an eagle are part of the place settings for Tuesday night's State Dinner for French President Francois Hollande at the White House February 10, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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.