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  • The monogram on her handkerchief, scratchy against my cheek.  (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters
  • We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls.  (source)
    monogram = embroider a design -- usually based upon initials of a person or family
  • It was just a jar of buttons, like the mismatched embroidered pillowcases and monogrammed napkins I tugged from the bins at the Goodwill.  (source)
    monogrammed = with initials embroidered on them
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  • It was on Cass's thick, monogrammed stationery with matching envelopes.  (source)
    monogrammed = imprinted with a design using her initials
  • The very same monogram also appeared on the dark robes of his famous OASIS avatar, Anorak.†  (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters; or adding such a design to something
  • Now they belonged to no one; they were downgraded into stacks and heaps of objects, they were roughly handled, and only occasionally, when I was carrying an armful of underclothes, did the faint scent of someone's favourite perfume rise from them very delicately, like a memory, or I might glimpse coloured monograms on a white background for a moment.†  (source)
    monograms = designs based on alphabetic letters; or the addition of such a design to something
  • If Lew's mother ever dies—ha, ha—she'll probably leave me some old monogrammed icepick or something.  (source)
    monogrammed = with a design that includes initials, such as the initials of a name or just the first letter of the last name
  • Angela sat down next to her mother, removed a trousseau towel from her large tapestry shoulder bag, and took up embroidering the monogram D.†  (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters; or adding such a design to something
  • Now he's stripped except for a long undershirt with fancy monograms sewed red on front and back.†  (source)
    monograms = designs based on alphabetic letters; or the addition of such a design to something
  • AND SO IT WAS that around half past eleven, I found myself riding down to the Village on the Fifth Avenue bus with the street address of Hobart and Blackwell in my pocket, written on a page from one of the monogrammed notepads Mrs. Barbour kept by the telephone.†  (source)
    monogrammed = added as a design that is based on alphabetic letters; or the act of adding such a design to something
  • Surely, by now, every pillow in the household has been graced by a butterfly and every handkerchief by a monogram.†  (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters; or adding such a design to something
  • While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.†  (source)
    monograms = designs based on alphabetic letters; or the addition of such a design to something
  • They are full of silver pieces and hand-sewn daygowns for infants, cotton handkerchiefs, monogrammed hand towels, a child's tea set imported from Germany.†  (source)
    monogrammed = added as a design that is based on alphabetic letters; or the act of adding such a design to something
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