embroiderern.
1. One who embroiders.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > one who
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brawdsterc1450
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browdinster1561
embroider1609
embroideress1723
clocker1898
needle artist1986
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvii. 84 More necessary to the land is..a deluer than a goldsmyth or a embrawderer.
1577 W. Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 56 On[e] Hayward, an inbrotherer, a Servaunt of my Lo. Wentworthes.
1610 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences 10 July Willi'mus Graues Ciuitatis Cant. Inbrotherer.
1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1342 A Flemish imbroitherer had..aduertized him.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6171/9 Mary Bird..Imbroiderer.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 67 She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 244 The arts of the..embroiderer will have to be set in motion.
2. figurative; cf. embroider v. 2c.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > one who exaggerates > in language
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longbowman1678
distender1831
bullshitter1941
16.. North Life Qvoniambec (R.) This embroiderer..has stuffed his writings with..lies.
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