Crossword clues for brocade
brocade
- Heavy silk fabric with a raised design
- Thick material with a raised pattern
- Curtain fabric
- Decorative fabric
- Kimono fabric
- Kimono material
- Upholstery option
- Upholsterer's fabric
- Rich woven fabric
- Rich fabric — bar code (anag)
- Rich cloth
- Regal fabric
- Heavy fabric with a woven design
- Fashionable fabric in the Italian Renaissance
- Fabric with raised pattern — co-ed bar (anag)
- Rich fabric with raised designs
- Wedding gown material
- Elegant fabric
- Wedding gown fabric
- Fancy fabric
- Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
- Weave a raised design into
- Rich cloth with a raised design
- Fabric with raised designs
- Globe reflecting church containing poster for expensive fabric
- Material ordered to dress huge bird
- Ordered to include legendary bird in rich fabric
- Name for rich fabric - could be A, B, C, D, or E
- Fabric with raised pattern - co-ed bar
- Rich fabric - bar code
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brocade \Bro*cade"\, n. [Sp. brocado (cf. It. broccato, F. brocart), fr. LL. brocare *prick, to figure (textile fabrics), to emboss (linen), to stitch. See Broach.] Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
A gala suit of faded brocade.
--W. Irving.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Spanish brocado, from Italian broccato "embossed cloth," originally past participle of broccare "to stud, set with nails," from brocco "small nail," from Latin broccus "projecting, pointed" (see broach (n.)).
1650s (implied in brocaded), from brocade (n.). Related: Brocading.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven. 2 An item decorated with brocade. vb. To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
WordNet
n. thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
v. weave a design into (textiles)
Wikipedia
Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word " broccoli", comes from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth", originally past participle of the verb broccare "to stud, set with nails", from brocco, "small nail", from Latin broccus, "projecting, pointed".
Brocade is typically woven on a draw loom. It is a supplementary weft technique; that is, the ornamental brocading is produced by a supplementary, non-structural, weft in addition to the standard weft that holds the warp threads together. The purpose of this is to give the appearance that the weave was actually embroidered on.
In Guatemala, brocade is the most popular technique used to decorate fabric woven by Maya weavers on backstrap looms.
Ornamental features in brocade are emphasized and wrought as additions to the main fabric, sometimes stiffening it, though more frequently producing on its face the effect of low relief. In some, but not all, brocades, these additions present a distinctive appearance on the back of the material where the supplementary weft or floating threads of the brocaded or broached parts hang in loose groups or are clipped away. When the weft is floating on the back, this is known as a continuous brocade; the supplementary weft runs from selvage to selvage. The yarns are cut away in cutwork and broché. Also, a discontinuous brocade is where the supplementary yarn is only woven in the patterned areas.
Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics.
It may also refer to:
- Beau Brocade, a fictional masked highway man
- Brocade Communications Systems, a telecommunications company
- Brocade Library Services, a fully integrated web-based Library Information Management System
Usage examples of "brocade".
Venetian rose of old brocades and velvets, of weathered, sun-faded aquarelle paintings.
He made no concessions to the warm weather: he wore a black barathea morning suit with a fancy brocaded waistcoat, and a loose tic with a silver pin through the knot.
Lord Tadai and his companions could manage to pack the ships with so much baggage, but when she saw the tents, betasseled and brocaded, begin to come out of the narrow hulls, she understood.
The windows which look into the garden, like those that look upon the court-yard, are mullioned in stone with hexagonal leaded panes, and are draped by curtains, with heavy valances and stout cords, of an ancient stuff of crimson silk with gold reflections, called in former days either brocatelle or small brocade.
And he had a cenotaph placed in the center of the marketplace, covered with brocade and silk, for himself, the empress, the princess and all the maidens.
There was a lovely square in that villa, and Tirant had ordered them to make a pretty cenotaph there, nicely decorated with brocade and satin cloths.
The king sat on a beautiful chair covered with brocade on the cenotaph, and a large silver bowl filled with water was placed at one end of the cenotaph.
There a very large and tall cenotaph was prepared for him, covered entirely with brocade, and on the cenotaph was a large bed.
The doctor was holding a crystal copita containing what was obviously a generous measure of sherry, and once again, she was leaning back, completely at home, on the brocade covered sofa.
Over this amazing garment he wore a dashing coat in coquelicot brocade, and crowned his sartorial confection with a curly-brimmed beaver brushed to glistening perfection.
The brocaded figure, cross-legged before the biggest pavilion, watched keepers and cowardies move about the tents and cages, listened to the soft animal sounds and breathed through bean-wide nostrils the pattern of smells that reveal the well-regulated menagerie.
Less embellished than his chamberlain, who was obliged to be recognizably splendid in the crimson and green brocaded djebba of state, the Bey dressed simply in white linen for the summer heat.
Almost as an afterthought, he twisted in his saddle and with a flash of gold brocade produced from the folds of his cloak a firelock pistol.
The wide folded kerchief that held back her long golden hair was brocaded red silk, and a thumb-thick circlet of gold and firedrops nestled over it.
The wealth of the East in all its gorgeousness was poured out upon these dignified and solemn infants, who wore coronals of gold and diamonds, stuffs of cloth of gold brocade, and satin sewn with pearls, and whose cloth-of-gold shoes flashed with diamonds!