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† broid, v.1 Obs.
Also 6 broyde.
[A variant of braid v., app. owing its form to the pa. pple. broiden, q.v. for the oi.]
trans. To plait, intertwine, interweave.
Hence ˈbroided ppl. a., ˈbroiding vbl. n.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1051 Hir yelow heer was broyded [So 4 MSS., 1 breided, 2 browded] in a tresse. c1440Promp. Parv. 53 Broydyn [1499 broyded] laqueatus. 1530Palsgr. 471/1, I broyde heare, or a lace, or suche like, je tortille. 1535Coverdale Judith x. 3 She..broyded and plated hir hayre. 1559Heywood Seneca's Troas (1581) 114 b, Forget henceforth thy captiue state and seemly broyd thy hayre. 1601Holland Pliny II. 80 Plaiting and broiding of herbes and floures. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Tresses, lockes of hayre broyded vp. 1624Bacon New Atl. (1677) 253 Curiously wrought with Silver and Silk of divers colours, broyding or binding in the Ivy. |