Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic Ornamental embroidery or braiding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. Ornamental embroidery
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Breadth.
- n. A braid.
Etymologies
- Variant of braid.
Examples
“There begynnethe the lond of Promyssioun, and durethe unto Bersabee, in lengthe, in goynge toward the northe in to the southe; and it conteynethe well a 180 myles: and of brede, that is to seye, fro Jericho unto Jaffe, and that conteynethe a 40 myle of Lombardye, or of our contree, that ben also lytylle myles.”
“a 180 myles: and of brede, that is to seye, fro Jericho unto Jaffe, and that conteynethe a 40 myle of Lombardye, or of our contree, that ben also lytylle myles.”
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“a 2 myle and an half of brede, that is clept Beumare.”
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“The priest used the missal as a Pax-brede, kissed the cross at the front of the Canon, handed it to the groom to kiss, and then the groom raised his bride's veil and kissed her, a wonderful fusion of sacramental hierarchy and complementarity.”
“Winkel heet Eigen Wijs, gespecialiseerd in onder andere grote maten dames mode en laarzen met brede schacht.”
“Det er et yndigt land, det står med brede * fert** fert*”
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“Ayto gives a 1398 definition from John de Trevisa, Some brede is bake and tornyd and wende turned at fyre and is calleda cake.”
“July 18, 2009 at 7:58 am dey iz nahtrallee-akuren brede:”
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“July 19, 2009 at 11:58 pm ai be tinken Hapicat iz eh Chartreux natrallee-ackuren brede awf kitteh jus lik mai Lincoln:”
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““Eh putatoe wif legz” iz hao hes brede Chartreaux, natrullee okkurren iz duscribud.”
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elsabet From the OED:
(n.) Applied by the poets to things that show or suggest interweaving of colours, or embroidery, esp. to the prismatic colouring of the rainbow. But used by some modern writers in sense of 'colouring, dye', apparently from misunderstanding their predecessors.
1869 LOWELL Seaweed iv,
The same wave that rims the Carib shore
With momentary brede of pearl and gold. Jun 27, 2007