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brocade
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Definition:a rich fabric woven with a raised pattern, often with gold or silver thread
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a balding little man in a coat of fine brocade, clearly a scribe of some sort, as he was seated at a small table equipped with inkhorn, quills, and paper;
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"So sorry I am late, Dorian. I went to look after a piece of old brocade in Wardour Street and had to bargain for hours for it. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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He may have looked like an aristocrat back in Virginia, but among the French elites, dressed in their silk, brocade, and velvet suits, their silver and gold trimmed ruffs, their powdered wigs, and their jewel-encrusted swords, Jefferson looked like a country bumpkin.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.24 (2012)
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in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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