apparently a confusion for braided ware = damaged or faded goods; see braided, adj.

tarnished goods; cf. braided wares at braided, adj. b.

Defective playing cards.

Commerce. plural. Goods of the third degree of quality.

Something rejected as waste. An article of faulty or inferior manufacture.

In plural. Substandard or faulty goods, which are usually sold at a reduced price. Cf. second, n.2 5.

plural. Articles of the fifth degree in quality; fifth-rate material.

plural. Things that may be bought at a low price or cheaply, esp. cheap editions of books.

Usually in plural. An imperfect piece of merchandise (esp. clothing or cloth) sold at a reduced price. Cf. second, adj. 5. Originally and chiefly U.S.

Cheap, inferior, or ostentatious goods, esp. furniture; inferior and tasteless design, ‘so called fr[om]. the reputed custom of a producer of…

Rubbish, junk, worthless goods. Also transferred and figurative.

In some senses of the verb. braided wares: goods that have changed colour, tarnished, faded. Obsolete.