emˈbroiderer
[f. embroider v. + -er.]
1. One who embroiders.
| 1413 Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxxvii. (1483) 84 More necessary to the land is..a deluer than a goldsmyth or a embrawderer. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1342 A Flemish imbroitherer had..advertised him. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6171/9 Mary Bird..Imbroiderer. 1786 tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 39 She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 244 The arts of the..embroiderer will have to be set in motion. |
2. fig.; cf. embroider v. 2 c.
| 16.. North Life Qvoniambec (R.), This embroiderer..has stuffed his writings with..lies. |