Hamburg edging

Noun

Hamburg edging (countable and uncountable, plural Hamburg edgings)

1. A kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin, and used for trimming.
   • That was the tree all the neighborhood children loved best, playing house under it, hanging by hooked knees from its low branches, while their faces turned purple and the little girls' skirts fell over their heads, showing gathered drawers with Hamburg edging.1927, Anne Parrish, To-morrow Morning, Chapter 5
   • “Just let Master Harry try hiding my thimble again and I’ll go straight to his mother and tell her how the china shepherdess on the drawing-room mantel came to be broken.” Then, with a particularly spirited snip of her scissors, “And Miss Isabella needn’t think because of her big eyes and those...1929, Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Chapter 12

   Synonyms:

   Hamburg edge