Obs. [f. BROWD v. + -STER.] An embroiderer.
1450, etc. [see BRAWDSTER].
1530. Lord Treas. Acc. Jas. V., in Chambers Jrnl. (1833), 165. Item given John Young brodistar for stufe and broidering of sixty four pece of Crownis, James, and Thressilis.
c. 1565. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot., 153 (Jam.). Some were … harness-makers, tapesters, broudsters, taylors.
