overweavev.
/ˌəʊvəˈwiːv/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈwiv/ 1. transitive. figurative and in figurative context. To weave over the top or surface of. Frequently in passive. Now rare.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 23 An arbour, overwove By many a summer's silent fingering.
1879 E. G. A. Holmes Goodbye to Mabel in Poems 81 My sky was over-woven with clouds of care and thought.
1920–3 R. Jeffers Tamar in Coll. Poetry (1988) I. iii. 25 Unhidden and half reflected among the inter-branching ripples, Arched with alder, over-woven with willow.
1988 A. L. Deneef Traherne in Dialogue iii. 97 Lacan returns again and again to the same set of terms, reinterpreting and revising, weaving and overweaving a complex verbal tapestry whose threads can never be completely disentangled.
2. intransitive. Embroidery. To weave over the surface of cloth. rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > manufacture textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > weave > specific processes
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1957 Woman's Day (N.Y.) July 19/1 By over-weaving with a needle through Calcutta cloth, he has brought the fine art of embroidery up to date.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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