brocade
/bɹəˈkeɪd/US/broʊˈkeɪd/
brocade noun: a thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
Noun
brocade (countable and uncountable, plural brocades)
- A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
- Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66
- ‘Taffety brocade at ten shillings an ell at Simon Snippets, the woman’s tailor, now quite ruined. I shall go distracted.’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 56
- An item decorated with brocade.
- Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
- Other species considered occasional migrants have become established in the UK in recent years, such as the ... sombre brocade, Blair's mocha, Flame brocade, and Clifden nonpareil.2016, P.P. Mary et al., edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy et al., Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Springer, →ISBN
- A decorative pattern.
- 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.1826, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, A picturesque and topographical account of Cheltenham, and its Vicinity
- 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.1976, Annemarie Schimmel, Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-Century Muslim India, page 126
Verb
brocade (third-person singular simple present brocades, present participle brocading, simple past and past participle brocaded)
- To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
brocade meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
brocade in Hindi
- fabric
- जरबफ्त jarbapht, कमख्वाब kamakhvāb
brocade in Tamil
- புடைத்தவுருத்துணி, சித்திரத்துணி, துணியில் பூவேலைப்பாடு செய், துணியில் சித்திரவேலை செய்
brocade in Marathi
- fabric
- किनखाब kinkhāb
brocade in Urdu
- brocade
- تاش tāś
More languagesFewer languages
- brocade in Arabic
- إِسْتَبْرَق ʔistabraq
- brocade in Indonesian
- brokat
- brocade in Persian
- زربفت zarbaft
- brocade in Vietnamese
- thổ cẩm, gấm
Examples of brocade in a sentence
- … 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.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 321:
- For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 52:
- 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!2012, Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, →ISBN, page 36:
Forms of brocade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brocades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brocades |
| present participle | brocading |
| past participle | brocaded |
| past | brocaded |
Origin of brocade
From Occitan brocada and Spanish and Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from Gaulish.
Words formed from brocade
Phrases with brocade
Words that rhyme with brocade
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about brocade
- What does brocade mean?
- Brocade means a thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
- What is brocade in Hindi?
- Brocade in Hindi is जरबफ्त (jarbapht), कमख्वाब (kamakhvāb). See Brocade meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use brocade in a sentence?
- … 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.
- What part of speech is brocade?
- Brocade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce brocade?
- Brocade is pronounced /bɹəˈkeɪd/.
- What is the plural of brocade?
- The plural of brocade is brocades.
Words near brocade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: brocade (page history and authors); brocade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تاش (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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