embroideress

noun

em·​broi·​der·​ess

-d(ə)rə̇s

plural -es

: a woman who embroiders

especially : one whose work is doing embroidery

… the inspired Parisian embroideress Madame Brossin de Méré, …

—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, April 1995

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