embroidered

English

Adjective

embroidered (comparative more embroidered, superlative most embroidered)

1. Decorated with embroidery; covered in decorative needlework.
   • 1816, Miss Appleton, ‎Elizabeth Lachlan, Edgar: A National Tale, page 65:

     The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.

   • 1850 July, "A New Yorker", “Sketches of American Society: A Wedding "Above Bleeker"”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 20, number 3, page 422:

     Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.

   • 2010, Hayward Keniston, Francisco de los Cobos: Secretary of the Emperor Charles V, page 135:

     Luis de Avila and Lope de Soria often mention her in their letters; so for example, Avila: "I came to Correggio, where I had Luncheon. I saw Veronica in bed, with a very ornamental night-cap and a very embroidered coverlet."

2. Embellished; elaborate, especially when containing superfluous or fictitious details.
   • 1835, The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 298:

     The man of business at his desk, the mechanic in his workshop, the idler on his couch, the man of letters in his study, has but to turn for a brief interval to these Lives, and he will behold, for every period and age, the very embroidered and moving scene that he has been seeking to understand and to sympathise with, in a way, in so far as the effect and the cause are concerned, not unlike that which Shakspeare's historical plays, and Walter Scott's historical romances, produce upon the vivid imagination.

   • 1882 November 1, “Drama”, in The Artist, volume 3, number 35, page 352:

     The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.

   • 1946 October, E. J. Bradshaw, “Military Geology and What it Means”, in Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume 76, number 325:

     That is not a very embroidered account of an actual occurrence.

Derived terms

• unembroidered

 

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəd/

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• Hyphenation: em‧broi‧dered

Verb

embroidered

1. simple past and past participle of embroider