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brede

brede noun: ornamental embroidery.

Noun

brede (plural bredes)

  1. (obsolete) Ornamental embroidery.
    • […] while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove1746, William Collins, “Ode to Evening”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12
  2. (obsolete) A braid.

Proper noun capitalized: Brede

Brede (plural Bredes)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of brede

Noun
pluralbredes
Proper noun
pluralBredes

Origin of brede

A variant of braid.

Borrowed from German Brede.

Words formed from brede

Phrases with brede

Questions about brede

What does brede mean?
Brede means ornamental embroidery.
What part of speech is brede?
Brede can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of brede?
The plural of brede is bredes.

Words near brede in the dictionary

  1. breddas
  2. bredder
  3. bredders
  4. breddest
  5. Breddin
  6. brede
  7. brede-stitch
  8. bredele
  9. bredeles
  10. Bredenbury
  11. bredes

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