We have remarked already that with Veronese the accessories of gleaming satins and rich brocades serve to obscure the persons.
He leaves on one side the gorgeous brocades and gleaming satins, in which he usually delights, and his nymphs are only clothed in their own beauty.
The national treatment of women was akin to that of an Oriental State; Venetian women lived in a retirement which recalled the life of the harem, only appearing on great occasions to display their brocades and jewels.
It was as slender and colourless as Roger Van der Weyden's Virgins, who are so fragile, so ethereal, that they might blow away were they not held down to earth by the weight of their brocades and trains.
Then bags of jewels that were contributed by the governors of India's provinces, carpets and brocades from Agra nobles, and so forth.
Our great-great-grandmothers here in America wore Paris fashions shown on the imported fashion dolls and made up in brocades from China, by the Colonial mantua makers.
Because so distorting to line, figured silks and coloured brocades for footwear are seldom a wise choice.
He had a shop in Florence where he sold all sorts of beautiful fabrics, velvets and brocades and lots of antique things.
For the next half hour Molly was lost in the delights of Millicent's collection of beautiful theatrical costumes, pieces of old brocades and velvets.
There were gowns of almost every degree of elegance, in brocades and glistening satins, wrought with roses or silver thread, turned back over beautiful petticoats.
There were pearl-colored brocades and satins, and dainty caps of sheerest material that allowed the well-dressed hair to show quite distinctly.
There was damask Floreells silk, brocades and lutestrings done up in fair boxes, as you found when you entered.
There were gold and silver laces and gold buttons and brocades of every variety and cost.
The chintz hangings and draperies were in keeping, being copies of the brocades of that day.
How different were the elegant shapes and brocades of their own time!
Most of them were of white or of dainty colors, but they did not compare in beauty or elegance with the brocades and embroidered silks worn by bare-legged natives.
No ballroom belle ever was enveloped by brighter tinted fabrics than the silks, satins, brocades and velvets that were worn by the dignified Hindu gentlemen at this wedding, and their jewels were such as our richest women wear.
The brocades of Benares are equally famous, and are used chiefly for the ceremonial dresses of the rich and fashionable.
The men wear silks and brocades and jewels, and bring out their children to see the world, but always leave their wives at home.
These brocades wear forever, but are very expensive.
But she presently baffles his calculations by rising, and, with her rainbow-tinted pile of brocades clasped in her slender arms, slowly passes into the house.
Half the court outside was occupied by a magnificent tent and the arcade galleries surrounding it were decked with brocades and covered with costly carpets.
On such an occasion, the pillars of the Diwán i 'Ám were hung with gold brocades and the floors covered with rich silken carpets.
The damasks and brocadesfor curtains and chairs were at almost fabulous prices.
I don’t think, in all the brocades I ever made up, I ever saw so pretty a pattern as this.
And we find that the thin white muslin ones give our brocades and tapestries a chance to assert their decorative importance.
We have not used the extravagant lace curtains that seem to go with brocades and carvings, because we are modern enough not to believe in lace curtains.
Very often the bed was placed in an alcove, and the heavybrocades and bullion embroideries were replaced by linen or cotton hangings.
There are also excellent fabrics reproducing old brocades and even old tapestries, but it is well to be careful about using these fabrics.
Spanish and Italian furniture and fine old velvets and brocades furnish this room.
This makes an effective ensemble whether brocades or printed cottons are used, if the arrangement is orderly and full of gay color.
We crossed the empty Audience Hall, climbed a wide staircase, went along a spacious corridor hung with rich brocades and carpeted in deep-pile silk, with soft lights glowing around ornate doors.
It was all in the old Vallonian style: walls paneled in jade, brocades hangings in iridescent colors, rugs like pools of fire.
Notice the daintiness of the picture throughout: the pretty flowers in the foreground, the splendid brocades of the kneeling king, the birds and weeds in the ruined stable.
The rich brocades and brocadelles of the time are characterised by the introduction of large flowery patterns, with pomegranates and other fruits with fine foliage.
From the iron hook, made to hold brocades and Persian carpets on gala days of old, fluttered some rags, obscene and ill-omened in the wind.
Then he commanded that Sohrab be swathed in rich brocadesof gold worthy his body.
Then Sohrab said, "Whose is the seat over which are raised awnings andbrocades of Roum, that glisten with gold in the sunlight?
Yesterday Signor Lodovico sent me, with the Duchess of Milan and Bari, to look at some sumptuous brocades which he had seen in the house of one of the richest merchants here.
Here the walls were hung with brocades of the Sforza colours, red, white, and blue, and tapestries, embroidered with all manner of beasts and birds and fantastic designs.
But yesterday they had watched her moving among them, full of life and charm; now they saw her lying there in her gorgeous brocades and jewelled necklace, with her eyes closed in death and the dark locks curling over her marble brow.
Then she bade shut the door and, when it was shut, she turned to my brother, and taking his hand conducted him to a private chamber furnished with various kinds of brocades and gold cloths.
We all lived of lives the happiest and we ate and drank of the best; upon brocades and cloths of gold we took rest and we slept with our heads on beauty's breast, but we could not await one day to gain the delights of a year!
Magnificent velvets and brocades cut up into "panels" of all sizes and all shapes, expressing nothing unless deformity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brocades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
