Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Needlework; sewing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Needlework; in modern times, the labor or drudgery of sewing.
Wiktionary
- n. Fine work done by stitching.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Needlework; -- in contempt.
WordNet 3.0
- n. needlework on which you are working with needle and thread
Examples
“I have 16 different versions of that collection, with my favorite being the Donna Green illustrated book (my first one, from my Grandparents when I was 10) and my most interesting being a selection of the poetry done in stitchery.”
Angels' Blood Countdown: Catherine Spangler - Touched By Light ARC
“Let your intuition guide you and allow it to emerge from the stitchery.”
“Edie took the abstract-shaped piece of stitchery, examined it, and turned it over in her hands a few times.”
““A fine job of stitchery,” she commented with a brief smile.”
“Beautifully installed along a winding corridor, as though but recently resurrected from their packing crates, these eye-popping exemplars of stitchery and design are at one level a sheer aesthetic pleasure for the eye, on the other a social and economic history of Europe in its heyday.”
“I always wanted to be an airplane mechanic, but I never got to go to school," says Sakis, owner of SK, the neighborhood's only sewing machine fix-it shop and supplier of stitchery supplies like foot pedals, feed dogs and throat plates.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Sewing-Machine Savior
“Last fall, Laura Benetti spent four weeks in rural India, helping women examine stitchery and figure out prices for garments to be sold in local markets.”
“Also, well made, well designed clothing of good quality fabric, stitchery and manufacture will last for years if looked after!!”
“Apparently an avid gardener, she brings her hands-on experience of nature to her stitchery.”
“NEEDLEART 2010 Embroidery, ribbon work and other stitchery fill the rooms of Montpelier Mansion in the 15th annual show sponsored by Stitching Pretty of Laurel.”
The Washington Post: Going Out Guide for Prince George's County and Southern Maryland, July 15-21
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bilby "VALERIA: Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009