brocade
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Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Meanwhile local media praised von der Leyen's burgundy and gold brocade outfit -- a nod to Indian fashion.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
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
That brocade floral jacket with the giant, giant shoulder pads and the high collar and the brooch.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
The man holds up the canopy's thick brocade curtain so I can speak to Rémy.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
He wore a robe of rich baroque brocades, yet on his feet were frayed, treadworn slippers.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Ringgold introduced quilting into her work in the 1970s after seeing brocaded Tibetan paintings called thangkas.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Gray stains tarnished Darío’s brocaded waistcoat, and a long, staggered crack ran along his head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 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
Her voice throughout is clear and informed, easily amused, psychologically nuanced and polished without being brocaded.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
I saw military washerwomen dressed in fine silk waistcoats for men, brocaded with water-stains and grime.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"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
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
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
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