tent stitch

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   a small diagonal needlepoint stitch

   Synonymspetit point

   Broadersewing stitch

Questions about tent stitch

What does tent stitch mean?

tent stitch means "a small diagonal needlepoint stitch".

What is another word for tent stitch?

Close synonyms include petit point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tent stitch a common word?

tent stitch 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.