embroidery

/im'brɔidəri/ Cách viết khác : (broidery) /'brɔidəri/

Thân thiện

A woman carefully stitches a colorful floral embroidery on a linen hoop.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Decorative needlework: The art or process of forming decorative designs on fabric or other materials with a needle and thread (or yarn).
   • Embellishment or elaboration: The act of adding fictitious or decorative details to a story or account, making it more elaborate or interesting.

Usage

• As a countable noun (a piece of work): Refers to a specific item decorated with needlework.
  • She showed me a beautiful embroidery of a flower.
• As an uncountable noun (the art or craft): Refers to the general activity or technique.
  • She is skilled in embroidery.
• As an uncountable noun (figurative elaboration): Refers to the added decorative details in speech or writing.
  • His account of the event was full of embroidery.

Examples

• Literal (needlework):
  • The embroidery on her dress was exquisite.
  • Traditional embroidery often uses silk threads.
• Figurative (embellishment):
  • The journalist's article was factual, without any embroidery.
  • The simple story became an epic with all his embroidery.

Advanced Usage

• "To add embroidery to (something)": To embellish or elaborate on a story, account, or fact.
  • He couldn't resist adding some embroidery to his travel tales.

Variants and Related Words

• Embroider (verb): To decorate cloth with needlework; to add fictitious details to a story.
  • She will embroider a pillowcase.
  • He tends to embroider the truth.
• Embroiderer (noun): A person who does embroidery.
• Embroidered (adjective): Describing something decorated with embroidery.
  • An embroidered tablecloth.

Synonyms

• Needlework: The art or practice of sewing or stitching.
• Embellishment: A decorative detail or feature added to something; an exaggeration added to a story.
• Ornamentation: The action of decorating something or the decorations themselves.

Antonyms

• Plainness: The quality of being simple and unadorned.
• Bare facts: The unembellished, basic truth of a matter.

Idioms and Phrases

• A tissue of embroidery: A story or account that is largely fabricated or heavily embellished.
  • His alibi was a tissue of embroidery that quickly fell apart.

Học thuật

Noun

1. decorative needlework
2. elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
   • the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fancywork
• embellishment