Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Embroider
verb (common).—To exaggerate; to add to the truth.
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1877. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Mississippi Pilot. Tom tried to make himself appear to be a hero too, and succeeded to some extent, but then he always had a way of EMBROIDERING.
