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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 119 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMPLER (from O. Fr. essemplaire, with dropping of initial a, See also:

Late See also:Lat. exemplariam, from exemplum, example; it is a doublet of " examplar " or " exempler," as " See also:sample " is of example "), a See also:model or See also:pattern to be copied, particularly a small rectangular piece of See also:embroidery worked on See also:canvas or other material as a pattern or example of a beginner's skill in See also:needle-See also:work; as a means of teaching the stitches. Down to comparatively See also:recent times every little girl worked her " sampler," and examples of 17th-See also:century work are still found and have become the See also:object of the See also:collector's See also:search. They usually contained the See also:alphabet, the worker's name, the date, and See also:Bible texts, verses, mottoes, the whole surrounded with some conventional See also:design. The earliest sampler in existence is dated 1643 and is in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum, See also:South See also:Kensington (see M. B. Huish, Samplers and See also:Tapestry Embroideries, 1900, and See also:List of Samplers in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, See also:Board of See also:Education, South Kensington, 1906).

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