different between woven vs brocade

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wo?v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??v?n/
• Rhymes: -??v?n

Adjective

woven (not comparable)

1. Fabricated by weaving.

   Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.

2. Interlaced

   The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

Derived terms

• bewoven

Translations

Noun

woven (plural wovens)

1. A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

Verb

woven

1. past participle of weave

   The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Verb

woven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of wuiven

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.

Translations

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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