broi·der

(broi′dər)

tr.v. broi·dered, broi·der·ing, broi·ders Archaic

To ornament with needlework; embroider.

[Alteration (influenced by Middle English broiden, braided) of Middle English brouderen, from Old French brosder, brouder; see embroider.]

broi′der·y n.

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broider

(ˈbrɔɪdə)

(Knitting & Sewing) (tr) an archaic word for embroider

[C15: from Old French brosder, of Germanic origin; see embroider]

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broi•der

(ˈbrɔɪ dər)

v.t.

to embroider.

[1400–50; late Middle English, variant of browder]

broi′der•er, n.

broi′der•y, n.

broider

Past participle: broidered
Gerund: broidering

Imperative
broider
broider

Present
I broider
you broider
he/she/it broiders
we broider
you broider
they broider

Preterite
I broidered
you broidered
he/she/it broidered
we broidered
you broidered
they broidered

Present Continuous
I am broidering
you are broidering
he/she/it is broidering
we are broidering
you are broidering
they are broidering

Present Perfect
I have broidered
you have broidered
he/she/it has broidered
we have broidered
you have broidered
they have broidered

Past Continuous
I was broidering
you were broidering
he/she/it was broidering
we were broidering
you were broidering
they were broidering

Past Perfect
I had broidered
you had broidered
he/she/it had broidered
we had broidered
you had broidered
they had broidered

Future
I will broider
you will broider
he/she/it will broider
we will broider
you will broider
they will broider

Future Perfect
I will have broidered
you will have broidered
he/she/it will have broidered
we will have broidered
you will have broidered
they will have broidered

Future Continuous
I will be broidering
you will be broidering
he/she/it will be broidering
we will be broidering
you will be broidering
they will be broidering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been broidering
you have been broidering
he/she/it has been broidering
we have been broidering
you have been broidering
they have been broidering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been broidering
you will have been broidering
he/she/it will have been broidering
we will have been broidering
you will have been broidering
they will have been broidering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been broidering
you had been broidering
he/she/it had been broidering
we had been broidering
you had been broidering
they had been broidering

Conditional
I would broider
you would broider
he/she/it would broider
we would broider
you would broider
they would broider

Past Conditional
I would have broidered
you would have broidered
he/she/it would have broidered
we would have broidered
you would have broidered
they would have broidered

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

broider - decorate with needlework

embroider

purl - embroider with gold or silver thread

purl - edge or border with gold or silver embroidery

adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

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They tell me (while they speak Of her "costly broider'd pall") That my voice is growing weak - That I should not sing at all -

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To-day fresh colours break the soil, and butterflies take wing Down broidered lawns all bright with pearls in the garden of the King.

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It was Mistress Hibbins, who, arrayed in great magnificence, with a triple ruff, a broidered stomacher, a gown of rich velvet, and a gold-headed cane, had come forth to see the procession.

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He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth; and one empty arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar's surcoat.

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``Was not thy daughter dark-haired?'' said one of the outlaws; ``and wore she not a veil of twisted sendal, broidered with silver?''

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And the goddess bright-eyed Athene girded and clothed her with silvery raiment, and down from her head she spread with her hands a broidered veil, a wonder to see; and she, Pallas Athene, put about her head lovely garlands, flowers of new-grown herbs.

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Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock-cart, with a broidered canopy of two domes, like a double-humped camel, which had just been drawn into the par.

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* The Republican Party enjoyed unprecedented victories in the General Election: Tim Hutchinson became the first Republican senator from Arkansas since Reconstruction to iota broider Asa in Congress Win Paul Rockefeller won the lieutenant governor's seat, and Jay Dickey was re-elected to Congress from the 4th District.

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Moreover, the women of her city are said to keep the men home, "to ply the distaff, broider, card and sow,/In female gown descending to the feet,/which renders them effeminate and slow" (lxxii in Canto XIX).

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