Crossword-Solution: EMBROIDERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Embroidery | n. | Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. |
| Embroidery | n. | Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. |
We have 46 clues for the answer “EMBROIDERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine needlework | 1 answer |
| Needle-and-thread skill | 1 answer |
| Hobby that'll have you in stitches? | 1 answer |
| Doily-making skill | 1 answer |
| BREDE | 1 answer |
| AURIFRISIUM | 1 answer |
| orfray | 2 answers |
| stitchery | 3 answers |
| orphrey | 3 answers |
| Assisi | 3 answers |
| Sampler | 5 answers |
| handwork | 6 answers |
| Needlepoint? | 6 answers |
| arabesque | 10 answers |
| Decorative needlework | 12 answers |
| Needlework? | 24 answers |
| overstatement | 31 answers |
| glamorisation | 31 answers |
| garnishment | 31 answers |
| enrichment | 32 answers |
| beautification | 34 answers |
| aggrandisement | 37 answers |
| colouring | 43 answers |
| Embellishment | 48 answers |
| elaboration | 50 answers |
| evolution | 51 answers |
| trimming | 51 answers |
| frill | 55 answers |
| Illustration | 56 answers |
| Adjunct | 57 answers |
| ruff | 58 answers |
| Adornment | 59 answers |
| Ruffle | 63 answers |
| Lace | 64 answers |
| Garnish | 64 answers |
| exaggeration | 68 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
| frills | 74 answers |
| development | 74 answers |
| expansion | 75 answers |
| Painting | 77 answers |
| colour | 78 answers |
| flourish | 88 answers |
| Trim | 91 answers |
| DECORATION ___ | 97 answers |
| Color | 140 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EMBROIDERY (5)
Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair.
But the object that most drew my attention to the mysterious package was a certain affair of fine red cloth, much worn and faded, There were traces about it of gold embroidery, which, however, was greatly frayed and defaced, so that none, or very little, of the glitter was left.
Harsanyi took up her embroidery and Thea sat down beside her on a low stool, her hands clasped about her knees.
Silk and embroidery distinguished their dresses, and marked the wealth and importance of their master; forming, at the same time, a striking contrast with the martial simplicity of his own attire.
And surely the art of the painter and every other creative and constructive art are full of them,--weaving, embroidery, architecture, and every kind of manufacture; also nature, animal and vegetable,--in all of them there is grace or the absence of grace.
Quotes with EMBROIDERY (3)
And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, a…
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Kate Walker´s attitude is characteristic of contemporary feminists' determination not to reject femininity but to empty the term of its negative connotations, to reclaim and refashion the category: "I have never worried that embroidery's association with femininity, sweetness, passivity and obedience may subvert my work's feminist intention. Femininity and sweetness are part of women's strength. Passivity and obedience, moreover, are the very opposites of the qualities necess…
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Appears in: Newsday, The Atlantic.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2009–2021).