- 1錦緞
Brocade is a thick, heavy cloth with a raised pattern. The special thing is the gold and silver thread: it is woven into the cloth, not painted on and not sewn on later, so the flowers or swirls sit up a little and catch the light. You see it on grand old jackets, church clothes, fancy curtains, and some traditional Chinese dresses that are trying to look rich. It is a rather , old-world word. In a shop today people may just say “ silk” or “heavy silk”, though actually those are looser names — real brocade is stiff, and the metal thread is the point. There is a quiet verb too, to brocade, meaning to weave cloth this way or to something with this cloth. You will almost never hear the verb in ordinary talk. The noun is the one that lives.
組成English took the name from southern European words for the cloth — Occitan brocada, Spanish and Portuguese brocado — and French brocart gave it a nudge. Those go back to Italian broccato, from brocco, and the trail ends in Gaulish, the old Celtic language of what is now France.
同家族的字
- brocadedthe adjective: made of brocade, or decorated that way
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brocadenoun/bɹəˈkeɪd/
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A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
- Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.
- ‘Taffety brocade at ten shillings an ell at Simon Snippets, the woman’s tailor, now quite ruined. I shall go distracted.’
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An item decorated with brocade.
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Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
- 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.
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A decorative pattern.
- 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.
- 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.
brocadeverb/bɹəˈkeɪd/
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To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
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