Brocaded

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of brocade.
  • adjective. Embellished with brocade
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  • adjective. embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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