different between brocade vs brocaded

English

Etymology

From Occitan brocada and Spanish and Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

brocade (countable and uncountable, plural brocades)

1. (countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 321]:

     … his desire to stand in brocade and sing Rhadames in Aida was like my eagerness to go far, far beyond fellow intellectuals of my generation who had lost the imaginative soul.

2. An item decorated with brocade.
3. Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
4. (metaphoric) A decorative pattern.

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Verb

brocade (third-person singular simple present brocades, present participle brocading, simple past and past participle brocaded)

1. To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.

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English

Verb

brocaded

1. simple past tense and past participle of brocade

Adjective

brocaded (comparative more brocaded, superlative most brocaded)

1. Embellished with brocade
   • 1713, John Gay, “Araminta. A Town Eclogue,”^[1]

     Brocaded Flow’rs o’er the gay Manteau shine,

     And the rich Stays her Taper Shape confine;

     Thus all her Dress exerts a graceful Pride,

     And sporting Loves surround th’ expecting Bride […]

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter 11,^[2]

     The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns—made of green brocaded satin.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Chapter ,^[3]

     […] slightly withdrawn behind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically fixed on the stagelovers.

   • 1927, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest, Chapter 6,^[4]

     […] she walked in the garden among brocaded moths, wearing a new gown of “powder-blue” chiffon […]

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