broider

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)

Verb

broider (third-person singular simple present broiders, present participle broidering, simple past and past participle broidered)

1. (archaic) To embroider.
   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] 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.’

Derived terms

• broiderer

 

Anagrams

• borried