brocade
noun
fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
brocaded
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past participleof brocade.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof brocade.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
brocadenounfabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
Example Sentences
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Working with her brother-in-law, Tomás de los Arcos, who fabricated the brocaded ecclesiastical garments incised with gold, Luisa Roldán made a startlingly lifelike, hyperreal figure of the preaching saint Ginés de la Jara.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
The entire cast could behave as cold and stiffly as corpses, and as long as we're also wheeled through brocaded beauty and inspired grotesquery, this follow-up will have done its job.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020
Consider his “Madonna at the Fountain,” in which the beatific Mary hovers in three dimensions before a brocaded carpet, held aloft by two rainbow-winged angels.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
“There was none of this,” he said, motioning toward finely brocaded upholstery, plush silks and a mantelpiece crowded with photographs of world leaders the king had known.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
She sailed across the room like a man-of-war, showing the brocaded tips of her shoes and layers of lace-trimmed, starched petticoats.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
