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darning

WordNet
Voile made of natural-colored lace embroidery: tulle door darning on machine tulle. A rectangular tulle is filled with rows of falling leaves and bordered on three sides with rosettes on densely leafy stems. Straight finish with fabric stitching.
Voile made of natural-colored lace embroidery: tulle door darning on machine tulle. A rectangular tulle is filled with rows of falling leaves and bordered on three sides with rosettes on densely leafy stems. Straight finish with fabric stitching.
  1. (n) darning
    the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads
Illustrations
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials MF, ANNO 1772 under a crown, surrounded by four piercing patterns.
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials MF, ANNO 1772 under a crown, surrounded by four piercing patterns.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the initials GR in a coat of arms. The edge is worked out.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the initials GR in a coat of arms. The edge is worked out.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the letter AM under a crown, the year ANNO 1736 and various stop patterns.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the letter AM under a crown, the year ANNO 1736 and various stop patterns.
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials PCT under a crown in doorstop, HF, HIS, MS, PCTF in star stitch, CVDH in cross stitch, ICN in box stitch and ANNO 1843 in box stitch.
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials PCT under a crown in doorstop, HF, HIS, MS, PCTF in star stitch, CVDH in cross stitch, ICN in box stitch and ANNO 1843 in box stitch.
Strip of natural-colored lace embroidery, tulle door darning on machine tulle. The pattern has thick roses on branches and neo-rococo c-volutes. A concatenated pattern of two types of floral motifs runs along the scalloped lower edge. The top is finished with a narrow hem. The ends of the strip are sewn together. The strip may have been used or intended for on a skirt or around the shoulders.
Strip of natural-colored lace embroidery, tulle door darning on machine tulle. The pattern has thick roses on branches and neo-rococo c-volutes. A concatenated pattern of two types of floral motifs runs along the scalloped lower edge. The top is finished with a narrow hem. The ends of the strip are sewn together. The strip may have been used or intended for on a skirt or around the shoulders.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials CVG, the year 1766 and a square in the middle with a flower.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery consists of the initials CVG, the year 1766 and a square in the middle with a flower.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the year ANNO 1798 and various colored stoppers.
Darning patch with embroidery. The embroidery has the year ANNO 1798 and various colored stoppers.
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the year ANNO 1803 and a square within which the initials CVC.
Darning patch with multi-colored embroidery. The embroidery consists of the year ANNO 1803 and a square within which the initials CVC.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) darning
    The act of mending by imitation of texture.
  2. (n) darning
    Articles to be darned: as, the week's darning lay on the table.
Quotations
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
Leo Burnett
Lady Nancy Astor
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Lady Nancy Astor
A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.
Source Unknown
Usage in the news

O'Rourke: Darn you, Ernö Rubik - and that cube. mysanantonio.com

The 'Worst Company in America' makes some darn good video games. ky3.com

Button, button, where's the darn button. columbiatribune.com

Today, Deseret Book is launching a comedy web series called "Pretty Darn Funny". sltrib.com

Deseret Book today launches comedy web series called "Pretty Darn Funny". sltrib.com

'It's a darn shame,' neighbor says of trailer with 30+ dogs. timesfreepress.com

Darn Good Yarn Removes Over 6000 Pounds of Waste From Landfills in 2011—While Helping Women of India and Nepal. dng.net

Darn tootin' it's public. juneauempire.com

Tending resort 'pretty darn hard job'. journalgazette.net

Khon's also does the "wine," "coffee" and "art" pretty darn well. houstonpress.com

If instead each divorce had a similar story behind it, then I wouldn't stick around unless I felt darn sure the person had had the "Eureka". seattlepi.com

In Hollywood, it can be the whole darn tree. radaronline.com

The reference librarians at The Seattle Public Library are pretty darn amazing. blog.seattlepi.com

But it's darn close now, and the drama is filled with some compelling characters. bassmaster.com

But with my big feet, I kept tripping over those darned things. americanwoodworker.com

Usage in scientific papers

But it remains pretty darned mysterious how it does so.
On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter

She envisages the world as “loose and separate”, a succession of “distinct existences”: “just one darned thing after another”.
On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter

However, at the present time the paramount concern is making those darned density perturbations.
New physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background

The upper limit was 14 keV (Mapelli and Ferrara 2005), and the lower limit was larger, but darned if we can find the paper, though somewhere in the 163 page index, it has a green circle.
Astrophysics in 2006

Usage in literature

This kind was known as darned netting. "Textiles" by William H. Dooley

I guess an American citizen can lick a darned aristocrat at pulling an oar same as he did at shooting off guns. "The Northern Iron" by George A. Birmingham

The whole darned thing went out like Niagara. "Still Jim" by Honoré Willsie Morrow

Procure some darning needles, and also a little unspun silk, which will give you a suspending fibre void of torsion. "Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall

Or, to speak more correctly, she had been darning them. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Bertie looked soberly down at his old, well-darned mittens. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

O, it made me tired to see a man Pa's age act so like a darn fool. "Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883" by George W. Peck

Pa is a darn smart man, and don't you forget it. "The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883" by George W. Peck

I'll clean up your mess, darn you! "Desert Conquest" by A. M. Chisholm

There's a darned rum go. "Colonial Born" by G. Firth Scott

Usage in poetry
"When the world goes hard and wrong,
Lend a hand to help him along;
When his stockings have holes to darn,
Don't you grudge him your ball of yarn.
To-night I can hear hees darn ole fiddle,
Playin' away on Joe Belair--
Can hear heem holler, "Pass down de middle
An' dance on your partner over dere."
And if the honest truth were told,
Its heel confessed the need of darning;
"Gods!" low-bred Vulcan cried, "behold!
There! that's what comes of too much larning!"
It was breezing up an' the sea a smother,
But we laid aloft an' we bent another —
For 'e says, says 'e, "By the Great Lord Harry,
She must darn well drag what she can't darn carry,"
Aloys and Jurien and Just—-
Order things back to their place,
Have a sharp eye lest the candlesticks rust,
Rub the church-plate, darn the sacrament-lace,
Clear the desk-velvet of dust.)
But evenings when I sit alane,
Hearkenin' tap of sleet on t' pane,
An' whiles I darn or mend or knit,
Sich luvely speeches, bit by bit,
Like breet lunts* flicker through my mind,
Sich canty* speeches, douce an' kind.