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broider (third-person singular simple present broiders, present participle broidering, simple past and past participle broidered)
- (archaic) To embroider.
1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: J Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, ; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 87:‘When I was a little child [...] the cardinal brought me a doll. It was an image of myself, in a robe all broidered over with the arms of England and France.’
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