embroidering (verb)

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• embroider — verb (embroidered; embroidering) Etymology: alteration of Middle English embroderen, from Anglo French embrouder, from en + brosder, brouder to embroider, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English brord point, byrst bristle Date: 14th century… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Palestinian costumes — are the traditional clothing worn by Palestinians. Foreign travelers to Palestine in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often commented on the rich variety of the costumes worn, particularly by the fellaheen or village women. Many of… …   Wikipedia

• embroider — [[t]ɪmbrɔ͟ɪdə(r)[/t]] embroiders, embroidering, embroidered 1) VERB If something such as clothing or cloth is embroidered with a design, the design is stitched into it. [be V ed with/in n] The collar was embroidered with very small red… …   English dictionary

• purl — I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. gold or silver thread or wire for embroidering or edging 2. the intertwisting of thread that knots a stitch usually along an edge 3. purl stitch II. verb Date: 1526 transitive verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• stitch — I. noun Etymology: Middle English stiche, from Old English stice; akin to Old English stician to stick Date: before 12th century 1. a local sharp and sudden pain especially in the side 2. a. one in and out movement of a threaded needle in sewing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• tambour — /ˈtæmbʊə/ (say tamboouh) noun 1. a drum. 2. a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering. 3. embroidery done on this. 4. a vestibule in a church porch. 5. Royal Tennis a… …  

• RASHI — (Solomon ben Isaac; 1040–1105), leading commentator on the Bible and Talmud. His Life Rashi was born at Troyes, France. (See Chart: Rashi Family).His mother was the sister of the liturgical writer, simeon b. isaac . His father was a scholar whom… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• cockatrice — [14] The name of the cockatrice, a mythical serpent whose glance could kill, has a bizarre history. It started life as medieval Latin calcātrix, which meant literally ‘tracker, hunter’ (it was formed from the verb calcāre ‘tread, track’, a… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• embroider — UK [ɪmˈbrɔɪdə(r)] / US [ɪmˈbrɔɪdər] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms embroider : present tense I/you/we/they embroider he/she/it embroiders present participle embroidering past tense embroidered past participle embroidered 1) to decorate …   English dictionary

• cockatrice — [14] The name of the cockatrice, a mythical serpent whose glance could kill, has a bizarre history. It started life as medieval Latin calcātrix, which meant literally ‘tracker, hunter’ (it was formed from the verb calcāre ‘tread, track’, a… …   Word origins

• tam|bour — «TAM bur», noun, verb, adjective. –n. 1. a drum, especially a bass drum. 2. a drummer: »Twice a day, the tambour…would read aloud the latest dispatches in the village square (New Yorker). 3. a pair of hoops, one fitting within the other, for… …   Useful english dictionary