different between galloon vs braid

English

Etymology

From French galon, from galonner (“to braid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lu?n/

Noun

galloon (countable and uncountable, plural galloons)

1. A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
   • 1918, Abraham Yarmolinsky, translating Ivan Bunin, The Gentleman from San Francisco:

     And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, — what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons, what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services!

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 194:

     His hair is tied back with a bit of silver galloon, and he is dressed with panache in a blue velvet jacket, white silk hose, buckled pumps.

Derived terms

• gallooned

Descendants

• ? Irish: galún

Translations

Further reading

• galloon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English bre?dan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdan? (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r??-, *b?r??- (“to shine, shimmer”).

Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

Alternative forms

• brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
5. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.

Derived terms

• umbraid
• upbraid

Translations

Noun

braid (plural braids)

1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11^th-17^thc.]
2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16^thc.]
3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
5. A fancy; freak; caprice.

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Translations

Further reading

• braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Adjective

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

1. (obsolete) Deceitful.

Anagrams

• Baird, bidar, rabid

Gothic

Romanization

braid

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Irish

Noun

braid f

1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

braid

1. Alternative form of breid