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  1. Latin `English work'. ecclesiastical
  2. embroidery made in England about AD 900-1500.
  3. It typically depicts birds and animals on
  4. highly coloured silks, using gold thread. It
  5. was popular throughout medieval Europe, being
  6. much in demand at the papal court.
  7.