单词 | brocade |
释义 | brocaden. 1. A textile fabric woven with a pattern of raised figures, originally in gold or silver; in later use, any kind of stuff richly wrought or ‘flowered’ with a raised pattern; also a cloth of gold and silver of Indian manufacture. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with raised or embossed surface brocade1588 imbrocado1656 brochéa1877 cloky1922 cloqué1950 zari1969 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 4 Cloth of Silke, Brocardo, and diuers other sorts of merchandize which come out of Persia. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Brocado, cloth of gold or silver. 1691 J. Locke Money in Wks. (1727) II Whose Wife must spread a long Train of Brocard. 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 149 Very rich Gold and Silver Brocades. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant vii. 24 A sort of Bonnet of Brocardo or Cloth of Gold. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4540/6 Bed Damasks, rich flower'd Sattins, Brochads, etc. c1720 M. Prior Phillis's Age Stiff in Brocard, and pinch'd in stays. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 186 One flaunts in Rags, one flutters in Brocade. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) At present, any stuff of silk, satin, or even simple taffety, when wrought, and enriched with flowers, etc., obtains the denomination of brocade. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. viii. 310 Gold and silver brocade were also favourite, and perhaps original, manufactures of India. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 115 I mean to bring out my best brocade, that I wore at your christening twenty years ago. 2. (See quot. 1869.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > gold-powder gold powder1608 brocade1869 1869 Eng. Mech. 12 Nov. 215/2 Gold is not put on any paper-hangings, it is a preparation called leaf metal, or a powder called brocade or bronze. Compounds C1. attributive. Of or resembling brocade. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with raised or embossed surface brocaded1656 brocade1711 honeycomb1818 piqué1858 brochéa1877 matelassé1881 waffle1930 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 15. ¶4 A Brocade Waistcoat or Petticoat, are standing Topicks. 1745 D. E. Baker tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote I. i. v. 31 This curious Cap and his fine brocard Cope will make him outshine the Sun-Dial. 1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxliii. 283 Somewhat in the brocade fashion of Gongora. a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 249 Her rich brocade gown sat upright in its place. C2. brocade-matting n. a floor matting of Japanese manufacture consisting of a texture of reeds and cotton yarn with a coloured design woven upon it. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > mat > types of tatami1614 bent-mat1615 bass-mat1727 bump1835 bast mat1837 parawai1847 brocade-matting1902 hooked mat1917 sit-mat1924 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 696/2 The ‘brocade-matting’ industry of Okayama. brocade-shell n. a variegated species of cone-shell, Conus geographicus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). brocadev. To work with a raised pattern (chiefly in past participle). ΚΠ 1888 N.E.D. at Brocade Mod. Newspaper, The bodice and train were brocaded with sprays of lilac on a ground of apple-blossom pink. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1588v.1888 |
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