Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
petit point
(petit point)
Pronunciation:
/pɔɪnt, pwã/
noun
[
mass noun
]
a type of embroidery on a canvas ground, consisting of small, diagonal, adjacent stitches:
cushions covered in petit point
[
as modifier
]
:
petit point chairs
Origin:
late 19th century
: from French, literally 'little stitch'
More words in this category
beading
bobbin
crewel
faggoting
filoselle
gros point
lacework
ladder stitch
lazy daisy stitch
needleful
needlepoint
overcast
oversew
pipe
popper
rose-point
seam
Soumak
Swiss darning
Nearby Words
Petipa, Marius
petit
petit battement
petit beurre
petit bourgeois
petit four
petit jeté
petit mal
petit pain
petit point
petit-maître
petite
petite bourgeoisie
petite marmite
petitgrain
petitio principii
petition
Petition of Right
petits pois