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brocading

brocading noun: the pattern or decoration made by brocading. Also the present participle and gerund of brocade.

Noun

brocading (plural brocadings)

  1. The pattern or decoration made by brocading.
    • the opening of the robe shows an under-dress of very beautiful shaded lutestring, the ground of which is white, but it is enriched with shades and brocadings of every possible colour.1864, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 218
    • "Versions of Herat rugs made in Isfahan in the time of Shah Abbas have, in most cases, deep colors-dark red in the field, dark blue in the border-and a brocading of metal threads"1973, Dimand and Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 71

Also used as

brocading is also the present participle and gerund of brocade.

Forms of brocading

pluralbrocadings

Questions about brocading

What does brocading mean?
Brocading means the pattern or decoration made by brocading.
What part of speech is brocading?
Brocading is a noun.
What is the plural of brocading?
The plural of brocading is brocadings.

Words near brocading in the dictionary

  1. Broca's regions
  2. brocade
  3. brocaded
  4. brocadelike
  5. brocades
  6. brocading
  7. brocadings
  8. brocage
  9. brocages
  10. brocard
  11. Brocard circle

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