Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Embroidery \Em*broid"er*y\, n.; pl. {Embroideries}.
   1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.;
      also, the art of embroidering.

   2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures
      and colors; variegated decoration.

            Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed.
                                                  --Addison.

            A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.