brocade

English

Yellow brocade bonnet of Victorian times in England

Mediterranean Brocade, a noctuid moth, Spodoptera littoralis, with patterns and textures suggesting brocade

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Occitan brocada and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹəˈkeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

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.
2. An item decorated with brocade.
3. Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
   • 2016, P.P. Mary et al, edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy et al, Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN:

     Other species considered occasional migrants have become established in the UK in recent years, such as the ... sombre brocade, Blair's mocha, Flame brocade, and Clifden nonpareil.

4. (figurative) A decorative pattern.
   • 1826, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, A picturesque and topographical account of Cheltenham, and its Vicinity:

     The shrubbery around the cottages is a brocade of lawns and shrubs intermixed, in fancy patterns, with gravel walks, in various directions, which wind into the woods.

   • 1976, Annemarie Schimmel, Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteent-Century Muslim India, page 126:

     It is as though the poets and mystics were weaving a colorful brocade of words with the intention to please God and to show His greatness to the world.

   • 2012, Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, →ISBN, page 36:

     Saying this, Rikyu stepped into the garden, shook a tree and scattered over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps of the brocade of autumn!

Translations

fabric

• Arabic: إِسْتَبْرَق m (ʔistabraq)
• Armenian: դիպակ (hy) (dipak)
• Bulgarian: брокат m (brokat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錦緞／锦缎 (zh) (jǐnduàn), 锦缎 (zh) (jǐnduàn), 錦／锦 (zh) (jǐn), 锦 (zh) (jǐn)

• Czech: brokát m
• Dutch: brokaat (nl) n
• Finnish: brokadi
• French: brocart (fr) m
• Georgian: ფარჩა (ka) (parča), სტავრა (sṭavra)
• German: Brokat (de) m, Brokatstoff m, Seidenbrokat m
• Ido: brokato (io)
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• Irish: broicéad m
• Italian: broccato (it) m
• Japanese: 錦 (ja) (にしき, nishiki), ブロケード (burokēdo)
• Persian: زربفت (fa) (zarbaft)
• Polish: brokat (pl) m
• Portuguese: brocado (pt) m
• Russian: парча́ (ru) f (parčá)
• Spanish: bordado (es), bordadura (es)
• Tuvan: хорагай (xoragay)
• Vietnamese: thổ cẩm, gấm (vi)
• Volapük: brokat, (silk) sadinabrokat

Verb

1. To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.

Translations

decorate fabric with patterns

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 織錦／织锦 (zh) (zhījǐn), 织锦 (zh) (zhījǐn)

• Finnish: kutoa brokadia
• French: brocher (fr)
• Irish: broicéadaigh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: broccare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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