0 past simple and past participle of embroider
1 to decorate cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures consisting of stitches that are sewn directly onto the material:
2 to make a story more entertaining by adding imaginary details to it:
Naturally, I embroidered the tale a little to make it more interesting.
They have brought lock, stock and barrel into the mythology embroidered and perpetuated by a complex mix of nineteenth-century media and politics.
To pay their bills, they embroidered or fashioned flowers from silk.
At some clubs, indeed, the dancers brought tapestry cushions embroidered with their names.
In addition, her gown is not embroidered with shamrocks but with stars, a change that facilitates the transfiguration of the subject.
He used to wear wide white trousers and a gallabieh, and on his head a nicely embroidered cap with a large tassel which our sisters had made for him.
Their plumage is in fact dissimilar, though they are embroidered in different combinations of the same colours;39 but it is not their physical characteristics that are important.
A mahout squatted in complacent idleness on its embroidered neck.
Once it has been processed, bleached, printed, embroidered or otherwise decorated, it becomes liable to tax.
