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gold braid

n. trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains [syn: braid, braiding]

Usage examples of "gold braid".

The High Seat of House Baryn was blade-slender and blade-strong in a yellow coat adorned with gold braid, but too smoothly unctuous, too smooth altogether.

Completing her disguise, she gripped her suddenly red-gold braid and grimaced at Melaine's face in the mirror.

A heavyset officer, with his red cloak thrown back to reveal a knot of gold braid on his shoulder, was walking up and down the line, eyeing each man as if he thought he might find rust or dust.

It was barely fifty paces to the crowd on the other side, and faces leaped out at him -- a bent, white-haired old man with a hooked nose, a sharp-faced woman under a hat that seemed mostly plumes, a tall fellow who looked like a stork in green silk and gold braid, a nicely plump, full-mouthed young woman who appeared about to come out of her dress at the top.

Thinking he needed something to keep the end tied, Deymorin pulled Mikhyel's stained cloak into his lap and began plucking at the threads holding the decorative gold braid in place.

Dany galloped before them, her silver-gold braid flying behind her, her bell chiming with every stride.

A young man outfitted in a gaudy tunic trimmed with gold braid jumped up, answered him, and drained his own cup of wine, then sat down.

She slid her fingers under the curve of gold braid, twisted it off, and set it down hard on the table as if the touch of it burned her skin to ice.

Her dream came back to her, sudden and vivid, and she remembered the tall man with the copper skin and long silver-gold braid, bursting into flame.