Usually means: Rich, woven fabric with patterns.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word brocade:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. brocade: Merriam-Webster
  2. brocade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brocade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brocade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brocade: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brocade, brocade: Wordnik
  7. brocade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brocade: Wiktionary
  9. brocade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brocade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brocade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brocade, brocade: Dictionary.com
  13. brocade: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brocade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brocade (disambiguation), Brocade (fabric), Brocade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brocade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brocade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brocade: Rhymezone
  19. Brocade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brocade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. brocade: FreeDictionary.org
  22. brocade: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. brocade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. brocade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. brocade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brocade (weaving), brocade: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brocade: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brocade: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Brocade: TheFurniture.com
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)
  5. Textile (No longer online)
  6. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See brocaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
noun:  An item decorated with brocade.
noun:  Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
noun:  (figurative) A decorative pattern.
verb:  To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.

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