† browdv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To broider, embroider.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing
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c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 227 Silk I broudede ful of grene grevys.
1493–1503 Haliburton's Ledger in C. Innes Scotl. Middle Ages (1860) viii. 246 Packit in his kist at Bruges..two pound of silk to browd with.
2. To plait, ‘braid’. (Cf. browden adj. and broiden adj.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid
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1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Harl.) 191 Here ȝolwe heer was browdid in a tresse [v.r. 4 MSS. broyded, 1 breided, Lansd. browded].
Derivatives
ˈbrowded adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > embroidered
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c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 479 Alle hise clothes brouded [v.r. browded] vp & doun.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. ix Eueryche his armes..Brouded or bete vpon his coote armure.
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