Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy fabric with highly raised designs.
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- noun A heavy
brocade fabric with raised designs. - noun A form of variegated
marble .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A rich brocatelle covered the walls of her retreat in the Winter Palace; the furnishings came from Cartierin Paris.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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A rich brocatelle covered the walls of her retreat in the Winter Palace; the furnishings came from Cartierin Paris.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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A rich brocatelle covered the walls of her retreat in the Winter Palace; the furnishings came from Cartierin Paris.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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A rich brocatelle covered the walls of her retreat in the Winter Palace; the furnishings came from Cartierin Paris.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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A rich brocatelle covered the walls of her retreat in the Winter Palace; the furnishings came from Cartierin Paris.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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George IV (better known as the Prince Regent) was the last monarch to observe the old tradition in 1820, but the bed remains in its restored glory, with hangings of geranium and gold-silk brocatelle and an embroidered pelmet bearing the emblems of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988
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We don't expect to carpet our house with Axminster and hang our windows with damask, but at least we must have Brussels and brocatelle, -- it _would not do_ not to.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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She brought us one of her corsets to look at, a love of a corset, in brocatelle, all over many-colored flowers.
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John, happily, had no money to buy brocatelle curtains, -- and besides this, he loved sunshine too much to buy them, if he could.
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The plain oak flooring of the hall had been replaced by porcelain tiling, and the neat, simple furniture of the parlors by huge mirrors; rosewood and brocatelle sofas and lounges; velvet tapestry carpets, in which one's feet sank almost out of sight; and immense paintings, whose aggregate cost might have paid off one half of the mortgage that encumbered the plantation.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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