How To Use Brocaded In A Sentence
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The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal.
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If she ever had a home, it would hold burnished mahogany tables and richly brocaded upholsteries.
A Hellion in Her Bed
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The hands that lay at rest on the pillows were frail as cobweb, and the body within her dark gown and brocaded bliaut little but skin and bone.
The Potter's Field
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They were all (our interpretess whispered) the Sultan's "favourites," round-faced apricot-tinted girls in their teens, with high cheek-bones, full red lips, surprised brown eyes between curved-up Asiatic lids, and little brown hands fluttering out like birds from their brocaded sleeves.
In Morocco
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The reporter was particularly taken by ‘Lady Deramore's dress of white and gold brocaded satin, embroidered with tiny gold fleur-de-lis, worn with heirloom diamonds in eighteenth century settings’.
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All the chairs artistically upholstered in brocaded silks, were luxuriously easy.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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I want her to come back and take me home and I want her to leave me there and let me finish my drawing, get the details in—the gold brocaded cuffs and collar, those eyes that keep on staring.
The Memory Palace
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The swordsman was a master of blades, not knots, but he bound the wrists and legs of the Visioness securely enough with cord drawn from the richly brocaded curtains that framed one entryway.
A Triumph of Souls
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With oil paints applied thickly, Ravi Varma created lustrous, impasted jewellery, brocaded textures, and subtle shades of complexions.
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The gown in Plate XIV is of worsted brocaded damask that was pressed after weaving to polish the surface.
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Draped in silk and gold-brocaded like the _ursa major_ shone!
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse
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The helpers 1 of courtier Narito's daughter were dressed in brocaded karaginu, which was distinctive and pleasing even at night.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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He knew how to make money, and it showed in his amply padded frame and heavily brocaded, elegantly tailored London suits.
George Washington’s First War
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Their robes rustled, whispering to the stone steps-Lady Ylle's green robe of damasked silk, the king's brocaded violet robe, Lord Garan's unadorned robe of rusty gold samite.
Dalamar the Dark
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He was dressed in a bright Italian dressing-gown, or woollen paletot — Italian, as having been bought in Italy, though, doubtless, it had come from France — and on his feet he had green worked slippers, and on his head a brocaded cap.
He Knew He Was Right
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I ran the length of the new hallway, with its Wilton carpeting, faux hunting prints and brocaded wallpaper.
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But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers.
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In its midst was a fountain adorned with bells and pendants and figures of birds and beasts spouting forth water, and thereby a daïs43 furnished with gold-brocaded silk, bordered or embroidered with jewels: and they found the treasures of the palace past count or description.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the deep archway were guards, dressed in brocaded and puffed suits, their long-handled spears beside them – who sat and threw dice.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Another portrait of a great-grandmother enchanted me then, as it has done ever since, a charming young woman seated, with her hands folded before her, her golden hair unpowdered, her dress of citron-colored satin brocaded with bunches of pale, bright flowers.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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It was but three days after this, that not at all made cautious by my former danger, as I used to be, and still pursuing the art which I had so long been employed in, I ventured into a house where I saw the doors open, and furnished myself, as I though verily without being perceived, with two pieces of flowered silks, such as they call brocaded silk, very rich.
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
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The end of the 60s saw too many flowered, silked, brocaded and babooned pop stars giving the peace sign with the missus in front of their rock 'n' roll manors before retreating indoors and screaming "Where's my f------ breakfast?!
Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers
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Oh, then, you're taking a little trouble, after all," Vera said, laughing, and she vanished vaguely, behind a brocaded _portière_, leaving a very faint perfume of gilliflower.
The Twelfth Hour
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Old men decked in brocaded black robes talked in huddles, their matronly wives - veterans of grand weddings past - glittering gold and exuding scent.
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a high-standing collar with points, and what was called a neckcloth of black silk with dark-blue brocaded figures running over it, and a handsome brocaded-velvet vest, double-breasted, the fashion of the times, with gilt buttons that looked as if they were set with diamonds, they sparkled so.
A Little Girl in Old New York
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brocaded silk
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I saw the doors open, and furnished myself, as I though verily without being perceived, with two pieces of flowered silks, such as they call brocaded silk, very rich.
Moll Flanders
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Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of
Doom Castle
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-- Piece of stuff woven or brocaded with red silk and gold thread, with an ogival framing enclosing alternately, pairs of parrots, _addorsed regardant_, and a well-known Persian (or Sassanian) leaf-shaped fruit device.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Brocaded concierges are choreographed to look like revolving doors.
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I ran the length of the new hallway, with its Wilton carpeting, faux hunting prints and brocaded wallpaper.
