1. One who embroiders.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, IV. xxxvii. (1483), 84. More necessary to the land is … a deluer than a goldsmyth or a embrawderer.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1621), 1342. If a Flemish imbroitherer had not aduertized him.
1723. Lond. Gaz., No. 6171/9. Mary Bird … Imbroiderer.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 39. She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 244. The arts of the … embroiderer will have to be set in motion.
2. fig.; cf. EMBROIDER v. 2 c.
1580. North, Plutarch, Life Qvoniambec (1676), 87 (R.). This Embroiderer … has stuffed his writings with so many lies.
