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▪ I. † embroˈcado Obs.
Also 7 imbrocado.
[corrupt form of imbroccata, as if Spanish: see -ado.]
A pass or thrust in fencing.
c1600Distracted Emp. iv. ii, in Bullen Old Plays III. 233 Favorytts are not without their steccados, imbrocados, and pun[to]-reversos. 1607Dekker Knts. Conjur. (1842) 16 Hee..taught him [Cayn] that embrocado by which he kild his brother. 1613Withers Abuses Stript & Whipt i. v, They are for nothing but the Imbrocado.
▪ II. † embroˈcado, v. Obs. rare.
[f. en- + brocado = brocade n., q.v.]
trans. ? To adorn with brocade work. Hence embroˈcadoing vbl. n. (fig.).
1677Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxiv. (ed. 10) 339 What are all..the embellishings, the embrocadoings of Fortune to us. |