Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Figuratively, heavily ‘embroidered’ with pompous diction: as, “much of the language is stiffly brocaded,”
- Woven or worked into a brocade.
- Dressed in brocade.
- Decorated with flowers, etc., in relief: as, a brocaded silk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.
- adjective Dressed in brocade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brocade . - adjective Embellished with
brocade
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
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Examples
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I saw the doors open, and furnished myself, as I though verily without being perceived, with two pieces of flowered silks, such as they call brocaded silk, very rich.
Moll Flanders 2003
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In the deep archway were guards, dressed in brocaded and puffed suits, their long-handled spears beside them – who sat and threw dice.
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It was but three days after this, that not at all made cautious by my former danger, as I used to be, and still pursuing the art which I had so long been employed in, I ventured into a house where I saw the doors open, and furnished myself, as I though verily without being perceived, with two pieces of flowered silks, such as they call brocaded silk, very rich.
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923
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The helpers 1 of courtier Narito's daughter were dressed in brocaded karaginu, which was distinctive and pleasing even at night.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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Another portrait of a great-grandmother enchanted me then, as it has done ever since, a charming young woman seated, with her hands folded before her, her golden hair unpowdered, her dress of citron-colored satin brocaded with bunches of pale, bright flowers.
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On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder.
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All the chairs artistically upholstered in brocaded silks, were luxuriously easy.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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It was but three days after this, that not at all made cautious by my former danger, as I used to be, and still pursuing the art which I had so long been employed in, I ventured into a house where I saw the doors open, and furnished myself, as I though verily without being perceived, with two pieces of flowered silks, such as they call brocaded silk, very rich.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1696
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He knew how to make money, and it showed in his amply padded frame and heavily brocaded, elegantly tailored London suits.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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I want her to come back and take me home and I want her to leave me there and let me finish my drawing, get the details in—the gold brocaded cuffs and collar, those eyes that keep on staring.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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