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US
/ˈnidəɫˌpɔɪnt/
]
[ UK /nˈiːdəlpˌɔɪnt/ ]
[ UK /nˈiːdəlpˌɔɪnt/ ]
NOUN
- embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry
- lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern
How To Use needlepoint In A Sentence
- Somewhere out in the blogosphere I encountered a woman who had seen change-ringing patterns needlepointed on kneelers in a little church in Cardiff. Wanna see something amazing?
- Embroidery and needlepoint make great hammocks.
- Show me the needlepointed sampler this is written on. Intertribal: escapism as a luxury
- They tend to go for needlepoint and take on really demanding projects.
- Hand-stitched needlepoint or embroidered covers look especially good. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
- I imagine a sort of holding area for souls, not unlike the D.M.V. My mother, in her surgical gown, needlepointing, waiting for her number to be called.
- Pop-up adverts, the bane of most user's lives, are usually created by The Women's Association in Stockport in needlepoint, and then scanned in.
- But name the last luxury hotel you stayed in that had spiral iron staircases, whitewashed walls, vaulted cellars and display cases full of antique scrimshaw, brass binnacles and needlepoint portraits of old clippers?
- The first of these, Missoni, has chosen a look somewhere between hippy and carioca which features a never-before-seen fake fur needlepoint fabric.
- She had done needlepoint and crocheting before being attracted to beadwork.
