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Specialist books such as Belt Buckles and Brocades of the Third Reich must have taken every spare pound Mair, who was unemployed, had.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2019

Ancestors' Brocades, the most recent and one of the best, is a 464-page record of the exact circumstances of the first book publication of Emily's poems, after her death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brocades, and damasks, and tabbies, and gauzes, Are, by Robert Ballantine, lately brought over, With forty things more: now hear what the law says, Whoe'er will not wear them is not the king's lover.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

What an Inundation of Ribbons and Brocades will break in upon us?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Brocades are for dignity, and it is dignity we chiefly need to-night.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir