2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures
and colors; variegated decoration.
[1913 Webster]
Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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