brocade
Meanings
Plural: brocades
Noun
- thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
- A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
- An item decorated with brocade.
- Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
- A decorative pattern.
Verb
- weave a design into (textiles)
- To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
Origin / Etymology
From Occitan brocada and Spanish and Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from Gaulish.
Scrabble Score: 12
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