Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
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Brocade
//bɹəˈkeɪd//
Synonyms for "brocade" (4 found)
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Translations
48 translations across 31 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- brokaat noun (fabric)
- goudlaken noun (fabric)
Arabic
1 entries- إِسْتَبْرَق noun (fabric)
Armenian
1 entries- դիպակ noun (fabric)
Bulgarian
1 entries- брокат noun (fabric)
Catalan
1 entries- brocat noun (fabric)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 錦 /锦 noun (fabric)
- 錦緞 /锦缎 noun (fabric)
- 織錦 /织锦 verb (decorate fabric with patterns)
Czech
1 entries- brokát noun (fabric)
Dutch
1 entries- brokaat noun (fabric)
Finnish
2 entries- brokadi noun (fabric)
- kutoa brokadia verb (decorate fabric with patterns)
French
2 entries- brocart noun (fabric)
- brocher verb (decorate fabric with patterns)
Galician
1 entries- brocado noun (fabric)
Georgian
2 entries- სტავრა noun (fabric)
- ფარჩა noun (fabric)
German
3 entries- Brokat noun (fabric)
- Brokatstoff noun (fabric)
- Seidenbrokat noun (fabric)
Hindi
2 entries- कमख्वाब noun (fabric)
- जरबफ्त noun (fabric)
Ido
1 entries- brokato noun (fabric)
Indonesian
1 entries- brokat noun (fabric)
Irish
2 entries- broicéad noun (fabric)
- broicéadaigh verb (decorate fabric with patterns)
Italian
2 entries- broccato noun (fabric)
- broccare verb (decorate fabric with patterns)
Japanese
2 entries- ブロケード noun (fabric)
- 錦 noun (fabric)
Macedonian
1 entries- брокат noun (fabric)
Marathi
1 entries- किनखाब noun (fabric)
Persian
1 entries- زربفت noun (fabric)
Polish
1 entries- brokat noun (fabric)
Portuguese
1 entries- brocado noun (fabric)
Romanian
1 entries- brocart noun (fabric)
Russian
1 entries- парча́ noun (fabric)
Spanish
4 entries- bordado noun (fabric)
- bordadura noun (fabric)
- briscado noun (fabric)
- brocado noun (fabric)
Swedish
1 entries- brokad noun (fabric)
Tuvan
1 entries- хорагай noun (fabric)
Vietnamese
2 entries- gấm noun (fabric)
- thổ cẩm noun (fabric)
Volapük
2 entries- brokat noun (fabric)
- sadinabrokat noun (fabric)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.
Source: wiktionary
… his desire to stand in brocade and sing Rhadames in Aida was like my eagerness to go far, far beyond fellow intellectuals of my generation who had lost the imaginative soul.
Source: wiktionary
I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.
Source: wiktionary
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