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Cutwork

Cutwork Meaning & Definition
Cutwork Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cutwork?

[n] embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away

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See Also | embroidery | fancywork

Cutwork In Webster's Dictionary

\Cut"work`\ (k[u^]t"w[^u]rk`), n. (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.

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