Brocade
[brə'keɪd] or [bro'ked]
Definition
(noun.) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
(verb.) weave a design into (textiles).
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Definition
(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.
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Definition
n. a silk stuff on which figures are wrought.—adj. Brocad′ed woven or worked in the manner of brocade: dressed in brocade.
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Examples
- She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The latter quickly spied out the magnificence of the brocade of Becky's train, and the splendour of the lace on her dress. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The brocade was an old remnant, Becky said; and as for the lace, it was a great bargain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But at the last minute, Mrs. Kirke remembered some old brocades, and Miss Norton lent me lace and feathers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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