hemstitching

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups
verb sew with hemstitches

Miss Larrabee was authority for the statement that Maybelle had used five hundred yards of baby-ribbon--pink and blue and white and yellow--in her trousseau, and that she was bestowing the same passionate fervour on her hemstitching and tucking that she had wasted on literature; that she was helping papa and mamma by shouldering the biggest wedding on them since the Tomlinsons went into bankruptcy after their firework ceremonial. — In Our Town, William Allen White
The "rich blacksmith's daughter" cast the thought of dotted Swiss behind her, and elected to follow Rebecca in cheesecloth as she had in higher matters; straightway devising costumes that included such drawing of threads, such hemstitching and pin-tucking, such insertions of fine thread tatting that, in order to be finished, Rebecca's dress was given out in sections,--the sash to Hannah, waist and sleeves to Mrs. Cobb, and skirt to aunt Jane. — Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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