fancywork
IPA: fˈænsiwɝk
noun
- Decorative embroidery.
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Examples of "fancywork" in Sentences
- Natasha, and about albums and fancywork with Sonya.
- A good description of this can be found in Knots, Splices and Fancywork.
- But when she left her fancywork to fetch a length of cloth, I went to work cutting it into long strips.
- Her brother said not to miss inspecting the stock, her niece said the fancywork was the only thing worth looking at and her nephews said she must bring them home an account of the races.
- They provided adults and children with sports and educational activities, like “instruction in sewing and fancywork like basketry,” on a daily basis and within walking distance of home and work.
- Silent Murf was largely toothless, and the gaze from his eyes diverged in opposing directions; his skinny arms were a fancywork of jailhouse tattoos and what appeared to be scabbed-over claw marks.
- After a lengthy political standoff, Wisconsin state Senate Republicans used a bit of legislative fancywork to pass a bill this evening that effectively strips public-sector unions of the right to collectively bargain.
- And sitting over her fancywork, into which, being what Richard called “safe as the grave,” she sewed more thoughts than most women: sitting thus, she would say to herself with a half smile and an incredulous shake of the head: “SO silly!”
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