brocaded silk. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
All the chairs artistically upholstered in brocaded silks, were luxuriously easy. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
The helpers 1 of courtier Narito's daughter were dressed in brocaded karaginu, which was distinctive and pleasing even at night. From Wordnik.com. [Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan] Reference
In the deep archway were guards, dressed in brocaded and puffed suits, their long-handled spears beside them – who sat and threw dice. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonderful Adventures of Nils] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Moll Flanders] Reference
Red rubies in brocaded skirts bedight. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Piece of blue satin brocaded with gold threads. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The gold in the brocaded robes is here slightly in relief. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
The singer of the bear legend wore a beautiful red-brocaded cap. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Piece of pink silk brocaded in silver and white and coloured silks. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Furniture coverings were very bright satins and velvets brocaded with the. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
I, complete with brocaded velvet gown, wide ruff collar, and bejeweled skullcap. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossibles] Reference
She wore a stiff, brocaded blue gown, and her hair was tightly wrapped in a net of gold thread. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
There were full-length portraits of Court ladies, by Lely, with wonderful lace on brocaded gowns. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Under this, she had a very short light-red brocaded satin bodkin, lined with fur from foxes 'ribs. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He lays his piping accoutrement on the bedside table, removes his cap, brocaded jacket, boots and slacks. From Wordnik.com. [221B Baker Street, London; 1:37 a.m.] Reference
Piece of crimson silk damask brocaded in gold thread with symmetrically arranged flowers, scrolls, birds, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
As with silks, brocaded in different colours, therefore never use chintz where a chair or sofa calls for tufting. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
Presently, he returned with a tea-tray in hand, on which was spread a deep red satin cover, brocaded with dragons. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Fig. 5 is from a piece of crimson silk damask flatly brocaded with flowers, scroll forms, fruit and birds in gold. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
There is a little footstool covered with brocaded violet velvet, with just a thread of green showing on the background. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
The Queen herself led a cortege of Court beauties on a white horse that was set off by brocaded and gem-sewn trappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
And she showed me two elegant brocaded silk gowns, very narrow and very short-waisted, but stiff enough to stand alone. '. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Their ankle-length robes were of maroon silk, brocaded with gold thread, and they wore short jackets with flowing sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Every time I feed my dog chocolate, she gets sick all over the house, including on my 19th-century brocaded sectional sofa. From Wordnik.com. [Gene's four-ring circus: Bring in the clown] Reference
The chasuble upon which this orphrey is placed is made of a lovely brocaded silk decorated with falcons, peahens, and roses. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
But you will say, if we fail in the matter of white cravats, surely we excel in that of black-silk ones and brocaded stocks!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
In this instance it was an opera-cloak of rose-colored broadcloth, wadded, and lined with white brocaded satin, soft and light and warm. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Pompadore Sattin, 14 Yards, cost 11 shillings a Yard; a silk Negligee and Petticoat of brocaded Lutestring for my dear Sally, with two dozen. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Leaning -- not nonchalantly, but actually for support -- against the brocaded coral silk drapes of a pair of wide, long windows set in the east wall. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
They were small ladies, dressed in black pongee silk, with sloping shoulders, and they each carried a black fan and a brocaded bag for odds and ends. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
She wore a gown of ivory velvet, brocaded round the skirt with bouquets of flowers and trimmed with Italian lace and cream chiffon; the train of superb. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
For afternoon tea in this country the hostess generally wears a handsome high-necked gown, often a combination of stamped or brocaded velvet, satin, and silk. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Then came a few moments of great bustle and confusion, and an accumulation of seal-skins and brocaded silks was ushered into the drawing-room of Mr. Rayne's house. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
In the 14th century the making of satins heavily brocaded with gold threads was associated conspicuously with such Italian towns as Lucca, Genoa, Venice and Florence. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Below were partly visible a fir-cone coloured brocaded silk pair of trousers, socks spotted with black designs, with ornamented edges, and a pair of deep red, thick-soled shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
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