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Webster 1913 Edition


Cutwork

Cut′workˊ

(kŭt′wûrkˊ)
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Noun.
(Fine Arts)
An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Definition 2024


cutwork

cutwork

English

Noun

cutwork (countable and uncountable, plural cutworks)

  1. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away