embroiderer

noun

Definition of embroiderernext
as in needleworker

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Recent Examples of embroiderer Every embroiderer at Inaash has been displaced, their families among the 470,000 Palestinian refugees currently registered in Lebanon. — Amelia Dhuga, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025 In 2019, Maison Parisienne organized an exhibition of the work of Lesage art director Hubert Barrère, a master embroiderer best known for his collaboration with Chanel. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025 Nearby, both embroiderer Vjollca Mezini and stone-carver Muhedin Makri who also works with iron, deserve a visit, even if your luggage can't accommodate their artisanal wares. — Samia Qaiyum, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2024
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  1. tailor
  2. weaver
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  • So Estrella opened up a tailor shop and decided to make the suits herself, daughter-in-law Vanesa Estrella said.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a priest, and a pastor — gave US readers their first sense of what the new superweapon did to human bodies.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of tailor
Noun
  • Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, the movie stars Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård).
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026
  • The police suspect Juggut Singh, a Sikh peasant with a criminal record who, on the night of the killing, was secretly meeting Nooran, the daughter of a Muslim priest and weaver.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of weaver

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“Embroiderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embroiderer. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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