subs. (common).—Exaggeration; the American SASS AND TRIMMIN’S (q.v.).—[See EMBROIDER.]
1890. Standard, 5 April, p. 2, col. 1. Fanny Burney had many good qualities, no doubt, but we fancy that when she tells us with such evident unction how great folks loved and admired her she puts a good deal of EMBROIDERY into her narrations.
