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Example sentences for "brocaded"

Lexicographically close words:
broadswords; broak; broake; broaken; brocade; brocades; broccoli; broch; broche; brochs
  1. They are of a thin rose-coloured damask, brocaded with silver flowers.

  2. The hot air vibrated with the constant babel of voices, the frou-frou of silk paniers, and brocaded skirts, mingled with the clink of swords and the rattle of dice in satinwood boxes.

  3. She was dressed in white to-night and her young shoulders looked dazzling and creamy beside the matt tone of her brocaded gown.

  4. Anon the King's knees were close to his own, and Madame's brocaded skirt got entangled with his feet.

  5. Pompadour rose from her chair as noiselessly as her stiff brocaded skirt would allow; she crossed the room and joined Lady Eglinton and M.

  6. With one delicate hand holding back the rich damask curtain, the other lying idly in her lap, her white brocaded gown standing out in stiff folds round her girlish figure, she was a picture well worth looking at.

  7. The toga picta was purple, and so heavily embroidered that it may well be compared to a brocaded curtain.

  8. He dressed neat, and something fine, in a plain cloth coat and a brocaded waistcoat.

  9. Then the youth opened his bales and displayed his merchandise to Taj Al-Muluk in detail, piece by piece, and amongst them he brought out a gown of satin brocaded with gold, worth two thousand dinars.

  10. His pin-checked suit was pressed to a knife-edge, and his brocaded cravat folded to a nicety; there was an air of complete well-being about him.

  11. The hotel suite has become the brocaded tomb of the old-fashioned garden.

  12. She wore the rich brocaded silk that her uncle had sent her a year ago from Paris, and which she had laughingly declared then should be her wedding-dress.

  13. Ada was perfectly lovely in an elegant costume of white cashmere and blue brocaded silk.

  14. The result was a dress pattern of soft black silk, brocaded with a small leafy design, a graceful lace-edged, muslin fichu, and an onyx bar pin upon which three butterflies were outlined by tiny pearls.

  15. A brocaded black silk gown, with a pretty lace fichu to soften it about the shoulders, and a simple pin to hold it together at the neck,--how would that suit you?

  16. Miss Carlyle was in full rig; a brocaded dress, and a scarlet-and-purple bow in front of it, the size of a pumpkin.

  17. A pink parasol came first, a pink bonnet and feather came behind it, a gray brocaded dress and white gloves.

  18. You have seen Miss Carlyle in her glory, her brocaded silk standing on end with richness, her displayed colors, her pride in her noble brother.

  19. The tint of these garments did not relieve the pallor of her cheek which would have been painful, but for the crimson glow reflected upon it from the brocaded cushions of the chair.

  20. However, everything went off very well; and Fanny looked charming in her pink silk brocaded with flowers, with white stripes down it here and there, and a pink quilted slip beneath.

  21. And then Grandmamma's brocaded silk came on, and how much worse it wore than the last: and when I was just wondering how many more gowns would have to be taken to pieces, Mrs Newton rose to go.

  22. Her brocaded satin fitted exquisitely to her slender waist, and ended over her shoulders in a sqnare cut, whose gatherings of such Spanish lace lay in dazzling contrast to her snowy neck and arms.

  23. 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.

  24. Just now Miss Sadie Reid is fidgeting nervously with a gold and pearl card case held within her primrose kids, that are peeping through the outlets of her brocaded Mother Hubbard dolman.

  25. Then he opened his bales and displayed their contents to Taj el Mulouk, piece by piece, till he came to a mantle of satin brocaded with gold, worth two thousand dinars from which, when he opened it, there fell a piece of linen.

  26. It was placed in an alcove and built into the wall, with pillars in front, of gilded wood, and yellow brocaded curtains of a curious, Oriental design.

  27. All the trees were brocaded with dainty, gold-green lace, and daffodils sprouted from the moss at their feet.

  28. At the head of the table sat a young man some three or four years older than Myles, dressed in a full suit of rich blue brocaded velvet, embroidered with gold-thread and trimmed with black fur.

  29. I forgot my old clothes and my uncouth looks; I forgot, too, my irritation with the brocaded gentleman.

  30. One young gentleman, who wore a purple coat and a splendid brocaded vest, laughed very loud.

  31. The copper-coloured brocaded silk gown, with a tinge of red, which Adeline Sergeant wears, with leaves of darker and flowers of lighter pattern woven in, is in unison with the prevailing tints by which she is surrounded.

  32. She wears a black dress with brocaded velvet sleeves, and is cordial and peculiarly gentle in manner.

  33. Mrs. Mitchell was still anxiously observing the silent figure, now absorbed in an apparently futile search in a brocaded work-bag.

  34. Lady Godolphin came next, more resplendent than any, in a lemon brocaded silk, that stood on end with richness.

  35. Charlotte wore a handsome mauve brocaded skirt, trailing the ground at the very least half a yard behind her, and a close habit of mauve velvet.

  36. Meanwhile the two fairy handmaidens, to whom Peri-Banu had given charge of the Witch, bore her away to a spacious room splendidly furnished; and laid her on a bed having a mattress of satin and a brocaded coverlet.

  37. Doctor John, setting his heels together at a precise right angle, and bowing profoundly over her hand till his brocaded coat-tails stuck out stiffly behind him.

  38. She hung a little brocaded bag, with a jar of rice inside it, on the left arm of each Twin.

  39. Under it was a covering of brocaded silk.

  40. Let us walk faster, or do you fear to tear that brocaded dress in apricot and grey?


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brocaded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.