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Tapestry.
“This woful lady ylernʹd had in youthe
So that she worken and embrowden kouthe,
And weven in stole [the loom] the radevore,
As hyt of wommen had be woved yore.”
Chaucer.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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