1. Of textile fabrics, leather, etc.: Adorned or variegated with figures of needlework. Also of the needlework itself.
1591. Florio, 2nd Fruites, 9. That [girdle] of blew veluet, embrothered.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. v. 44. A rich Imbroider’d Canopie.
1609. Bible (Douay), Lev. viii. comm., A girdle … of twisted silke and gold, embrodered worke.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. v. (1669), 343. A Lac’d, or an Imbroider’d suit.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus., 28. His embroyder’d sacerdotal Robe.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, I. vii. 156. An embroidered shoe.
2. transf. and fig.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., To Rdr. A. Through delicate embrodered Meadowes.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, To Rdr. The pleasant Aspects of Nature … and … her severall imbroidered Beds.
1672. Evelyn, French Gardiner, II. § 1 (1675), 136. Melons … white, wrought or Embroidered, Ribb’d, and others.
1868. Helps, Realmah, xv. (1876), 394. In the embroidered language of the Sheviri.
