NOUN
- embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away
How To Use cutwork In A Sentence
- There was a severe 40's suit that had the letters of the airline done in huge cutwork, it was the entire lapel on one side. Airship Hostesses - A Dress A Day
- No such cutwork is needed on Twilight, which is merely better suited to the large screen than the large print, where within its 600 pages it was at worst, plodding, and at best, tendentious. Interviews with various vampires
- Charming cutwork on the jars will be ideal for holding your favourite spices and pickles.
- The manuscripts were written in iron gall ink and decorated with watercolor paints (composed of dry pigments and a gum binder) and sometimes embellished by cutwork.
- It was rimed with dust and white mildew, but the cutwork around the ankle was distinctive. FALSE MERMAID
- They carry a stack of registration forms around and sign people up, volunteer at Dem HQ for whatever scutwork needs doing, cut work or school on election day to drive people around, you know the routine.
- She finally settled on a pale blue blouse lavishly embellished with cutwork embroidery, and a long, navy skirt, worn with three-inch DKNY heels.
- An uncommonly beautiful vegetable (I think of it as Nature's artistic cutwork), the nadur is used extensively in some Northern regions of India, but is a completely new vegetable to me. Archive 2007-04-01
- Knowing her dilemma, I offered her my Bahian ritual clothing, a full white lace skirt that would have done Carmen Miranda proud topped with a blouse of intricate cutwork embroidery that would have made Ralph Lauren weep with delight. My New Orleans
- Despite his self-professed ‘taste for pleasure,’ Morris was a dynamo of committee work, never flinching from long nights of tedious but necessary administrative scutwork in often atrocious conditions.