Brocade
[brə'keɪd] or [bro'ked]
解释:
(noun.) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
(verb.) weave a design into (textiles).
黛博拉校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
比利校对
解释:
n. a silk stuff on which figures are wrought.—adj. Brocad′ed woven or worked in the manner of brocade: dressed in brocade.
拜伦整理
例句:
- She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The latter quickly spied out the magnificence of the brocade of Becky's train, and the splendour of the lace on her dress. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In the chain of pattern cards it is said that as many as 25,000 separately punched cards or plates are sometimes used in weaving a single yard of brocade. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The brocade was an old remnant, Becky said; and as for the lace, it was a great bargain. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The great variety of elaborate designs of delicate tracery in silk, rich patterns in brocades, and gorgeous figures in carpets, attest the value of Jacquard’s important step in this art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- But at the last minute, Mrs. Kirke remembered some old brocades, and Miss Norton lent me lace and feathers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
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