bordar
/boɾˈdaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to embroider
🧵🪡 bordar ≈ border: stitching a decorative border along fabric's edge
Bordar is linked to the same root as English border and Old French bord, meaning edge. Embroidery began as decorating edges with thread. Doing it skillfully gives the figurative sense: to ace something, as if you stitched it flawlessly.