embroyde

English

Verb

embroyde (third-person singular simple present embroydes, present participle embroyding, simple past and past participle embroyded)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of embroider
   • 1523, John Skelton, Garlande of Laurell:

     With that the tappettes and carpettes were layde, wheren these Ladyes softely might rest, The sampler to sowe on, the laces to embroyde.

   • 1640, Henry Ainsworth, The Communion of Saincts, page 199:

     For who so dweleth in the secret of the most high, and lodgeth in the shadow of the Almighty; ouer him (as the a Psalmist sayth) God Giueth his Angels charge to keep him in all his wayes; yea euen unto b little childeren doth their care extend, and as to embroyded c Cherubins enuironed the Tabernacle, so doe those heauenly souldiers compasse and gaurd Gods true tabernacle the Church.

   • 1684, Jan Janszoon Struys, translated by John Morrison, The voiages and travels of John Struys through Italy:

     Their Stockings are mostly scarlet and neatly embroyded, their shoes with litle handsom heels, and sometimes for their more easy going with flaps.

Usage notes

This is primarily a Middle English verb, which survived into early modern English, at which point a final "r" sound was added.

Derived terms

• bebroyde