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broider

broider verb: to embroider.

Verb

broider (third-person singular simple present broiders, present participle broidering, simple past and past participle broidered)

  1. (archaic) To embroider.
    • [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William...
    • ‘When I was a little child [...] the cardinal brought me a doll. It was an image of myself, in a robe all broidered over with the arms of England and France.’2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 87

Forms of broider

third-person singular presentbroiders
present participlebroidering
past participlebroidered
pastbroidered

Words formed from broider

Words that rhyme with broider

Questions about broider

What does broider mean?
Broider means to embroider.
What part of speech is broider?
Broider is a verb.
What is the past tense of broider?
The past tense of broider is broidered.

Words near broider in the dictionary

  1. brohug
  2. brohugs
  3. Brohy
  4. broid
  5. broided
  6. broider
  7. broidered
  8. broiderer
  9. broiderers
  10. broideries
  11. broidering

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