Brede

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ornamental embroidery. obsolete

    "[…] while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove"

  2. 2
    A braid. obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.

Synonyms

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boodleclamsdinerodoughdoughlolly

Example

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"A work like "In This House of Brede," which tells the story of a successful businesswoman who enters a convent in middle life, is as interesting--and for the same reasons--as a story that takes place on a planet orbiting a distant star."

Etymology

Etymology 1

A variant of braid.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Brede.

Related phrases

brede-stitch

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