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Definition of "inwrought" [in•wrought]

  • Worked or woven in: an inwrought design. (adjective)
  • Having a decorative pattern worked or woven in. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "inwrought" in a sentence
  • "That wear his name inwrought with many a golden line!"
  • "The tone of her latter words was equivocal, and while he remained in doubt whether a gentle irony was or was not inwrought with their sound, she swept lightly round and left him alone."
  • "But there was still enough left to form a handsome knob behind, and some curls beneath inwrought with a few hairs like silver wires were very becoming."