Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hemstitch .
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Examples
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Nervous and frightened, at the same time fascinated, Saxon hemstitched a linen handkerchief intended for
CHAPTER III 2010
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As a matter of course she hemstitched the best table linen and bed linen they could afford.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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She hemstitched a fine white linen handkerchief for her father while I read.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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I bought a dozen or so, mostly hemstitched linen, hankies.
Archive 2008-04-01 Michelle 2008
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I bought a dozen or so, mostly hemstitched linen, hankies.
Consumer Reports Michelle 2008
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They made decorative items like hemstitched tablecloths and garments as complicated as a fitted shirtwaist, even when someone of their social class could have purchased such things ready - or dressmaker-made.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Elegant Linens offers a wide selection of hand-rolled handkerchiefs in fine cotton and Irish linen, with hemstitched trims, mostly priced between $12 and $37 apiece.
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Not much worth bothering about here, she was thinking, when she saw the hand-rolled and hemstitched corner of a blue scarf protruding from a coat sleeve.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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And I think the girls who hemstitched did the same thing day after day.
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A hemstitched bureau scarf that she had tucked in her trunk, in unquestioning faith in the bureau that was to be part of the ranch equipment, took the "raw edge," as it were, off the desk.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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