brocade
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The collection also featured brocade capes, puffer jackets and long wool coats with oversized fur cuffs.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
The next was an elegant Audrey Hepburn spaghetti-strap white brocade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Best known for his use of lotus and peacock motifs, Bal used rich fabrics like velvet and brocade - his designs were elaborate, inspired by Indian grandeur and royalty.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
A few brocade throw pillows lie atop the spread to complete the earth-tone look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
He was standing with his arms out straight while they draped him with ermine, velvet, samite, brocade, and cloth of gold.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
From rich woven silks, patterned brocades and intricate chintz to a range of less talked-about textiles, India's contribution to the global textile industry is unique.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
With golden brocades and rich navys, this is a swinging, stylish time.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022
One thing every costume had in common: they were all solid colors; no prints, brocades or lace.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
And the fabrics were all solid — no stripes, no prints, no brocades, no lace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Vaucanson not only made a mechanical duck, he also devised a machine that would automatically weave brocades.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Showered across the rippling, naturalistic folds of the Virgin’s deep blue mantle are gold brocaded floral motifs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
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
Stafford’s language is rich, thickly brocaded; her vocabulary strange, almost baroque.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
“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
The brocaded hangings beamed on the walls in soft folds—and, on the floor, a desperate and reprehensible luxury, there was a genuine carpet.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
"Royal India" may be the longest shadow of the imperial sunset, but the techniques this show celebrates--like tie-dying, brocading, hand embroidering and intricate weaving--are still practiced.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great Camellia trees gave lavishly of their waxen flowers, brocading the snow in crimson.
From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little
Tusser-silk, tus′ėr-silk, n. a kind of dark fawn-coloured silk, generally made without brocading or patterns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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