broider
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- broiderer noun
- broidery noun
Etymology
Origin of broider
1400–50; late Middle English, variant of browder, Middle English broide ( n ), browde ( n ) (past participle, taken as infinitive of braid ( def. ) ) + -er 6
Example Sentences
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I have tried to broider it with gold, I have tried to hang silver-bells upon the drooping corners thereof.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
The beautiful velvet and silk closes, broider by silver and gold!
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
I will broider a bodice—the most beautiful; and you shall give it.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud
Oh! wise Penelope Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone, If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!
From Cyrano De Bergerac by Guillemard, Mary F.
She would have followed Bacon to the death, and sat up all night to broider herself a kerchief.
From The Heart's Highway by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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