Brocade

Quick meaning: Brocade is a noun meaning An item decorated with brocade.

Meaning

An item decorated with brocade.

More Meanings

1. Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
2. (figurative) A decorative pattern.
3. To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
4. (countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.

Example Sentences

Saying this, Rikyu stepped into the garden, shook a tree and scattered over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps of the brocade of autumn!

It is as though the poets and mystics were weaving a colorful brocade of words with the intention to please God and to show His greatness to the world.

The shrubbery around the cottages is a brocade of lawns and shrubs intermixed, in fancy patterns, with gravel walks, in various directions, which wind into the woods.

… his desire to stand in brocade and sing Rhadames in Aida was like my eagerness to go far, far beyond fellow intellectuals of my generation who had lost the imaginative soul.

Word Forms

• brocades
• brocading
• brocaded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brocatelle, brocatel, imbrocado, broadcloth, bombazine, baldacchin.

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