to brocade

Examples

• All

• She learned how to brocade the silk, adding depth and richness to her textile designs.

• To enhance the elegance of the ballroom, they brocade the curtains with silver threads.

• But there is a way in which that that you can tell someone, oh, I did this brocade using a cricket and these type of foils.

• "B-I-J-O-U" is proudly emblazoned across his chest in gold brocaded letters.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A waiter, immaculate in gold-brocaded white, approached and bowed crisply.

  Fiction book (1999)

• He sits in a finely brocaded chair, looks at the Cardinal, an apparition in red.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Wearing a glossy round black hat and a sort of brocaded apron, he seemed a cross between a Shinto priest and a Masonic Grand Master.

  Fiction book (1996)

• She was wearing a silk gown trimmed with sable and a white brocaded mantle.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Van Neck has paid much attention to the richly brocaded black sleeve extending from Ruysch's scholar's robe to his upraised hand.

  Academic text (1996)

• Pwyll saw Rhiannon as a lady on a big, fine, white horse, wearing a garment of shining gold-brocaded silk, coming along the highway that led past the mound.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

I

to inweave

vsto brocade

9.9

To put threads or parts into something by crossing them to make a pattern

forms a raised decorative pattern often using gold or silver threads

How Ornate

to gild

5 7.0

to embroider

32 4.2

to brocade

• Specialized

1 9.5

to embellish

10 6.3

to ornament

4 3.7

to decorate

226 1.9

Surface Forms

Etymology