BROCADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brocade mean? 

• BROCADE (noun)
  The noun BROCADE has 1 sense:

1. thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern

  Familiarity information: BROCADE used as a noun is very rare.

• BROCADE (verb)
  The verb BROCADE has 1 sense:

1. weave a design into (textiles)

  Familiarity information: BROCADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROCADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brocade" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Derivation:

brocade (weave a design into (textiles))

• BROCADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they brocade    ... he / she / it brocades   
Past simple: brocaded   
Past participle: brocaded   
-ing form: brocading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weave a design into (textiles)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "brocade" is one way to...):

tissue; weave (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton)

Domain category:

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They brocade the cape

Derivation:

brocade (thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern)

 Context examples 

But at the last minute, Mrs. Kirke remembered some old brocades, and Miss Norton lent me lace and feathers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He was clad, I remember, in his flowing brocade dressing-gown, as was his custom before he set off for his club, and his foot was extended upon a stool—for Abernethy had just been in to treat him for an incipient attack of the gout.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In this room there was a wardrobe full of old-fashioned costumes with which Esther allowed her to play, and it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)