cutwork

1. 1.

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

   Broaderembroidery

Other forms of cutwork

plural

cutworks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cutwork

What does cutwork mean?

cutwork means "embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away".

How many syllables are in cutwork?

cutwork has 2 syllables: cu-twork. The stress falls on "cu".

Is cutwork a common word?

cutwork is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.