brocade meaning
ENWBrocade
- Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads.
- Brocade is typically woven on a draw loom. It is a supplementary weft technique; that is, the ornamental brocading is produced by a supplementary, non-structural, weft in addition to the standard weft that holds the warp threads together.
- In Guatemala, brocade is the most popular technique used to decorate fabric woven by Maya weavers on backstrap looms.
- Ornamental features in brocade are emphasized and wrought as additions to the main fabric, sometimes stiffening it, though more frequently producing on its face the effect of low relief.
- NounPLbrocadesSUF-ade
- VerbSGbrocadesPRbrocadingPT, PPbrocaded
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of brocade in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
- en brocades
- en brocaded
- en brocadelike
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "brocade" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb.