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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embroidery \Em*broid"er*y\, n.; pl {Embroideries}.
1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.;
also the art of embroidering.
2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures
and colors; variegated decoration.
Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed.
--Addison.
A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. --J. A.
Symonds
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
embroidery
n : decorative needlework [syn: {fancywork}]
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