Ornamental needlework created by stitching decorative patterns onto cloth; an archaic form of the word 'embroidery'.
Archaic English form of 'embroidery', from Old French 'brouderie'. The word traveled from Germanic languages through French into Middle English, gradually shifting pronunciation and spelling.
The shift from 'broidery' to 'embroidery' shows how English absorbed French spelling conventions after 1066, with the 'em-' prefix added for emphasis over centuries.
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