Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ornamental embroidery or braiding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
bread . - noun See
bread ,braid - To roast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Breadth.
- noun rare A braid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Ornamental
embroidery - noun obsolete A
braid .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There begynnethe the lond of Promyssioun, and durethe unto Bersabee, in lengthe, in goynge toward the northe in to the southe; and it conteynethe well a 180 myles: and of brede, that is to seye, fro Jericho unto Jaffe, and that conteynethe a 40 myle of Lombardye, or of our contree, that ben also lytylle myles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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a 180 myles: and of brede, that is to seye, fro Jericho unto Jaffe, and that conteynethe a 40 myle of Lombardye, or of our contree, that ben also lytylle myles.
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a 2 myle and an half of brede, that is clept Beumare.
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a 180 myles: and of brede, that is to seye, fro Jericho unto Jaffe, and that conteynethe a 40 myle of Lombardye, or of our contree, that ben also lytylle myles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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a 2 myle and an half of brede, that is clept Beumare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The priest used the missal as a Pax-brede, kissed the cross at the front of the Canon, handed it to the groom to kiss, and then the groom raised his bride's veil and kissed her, a wonderful fusion of sacramental hierarchy and complementarity.
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Winkel heet Eigen Wijs, gespecialiseerd in onder andere grote maten dames mode en laarzen met brede schacht.
The weather at Omen doesn't look as depressing as I thought nathreee 2010
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Det er et yndigt land, det står med brede * fert** fert*
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is awesome: FERT in the wild! 2008
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Ayto gives a 1398 definition from John de Trevisa, Some brede is bake and tornyd and wende turned at fyre and is calleda cake.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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July 18, 2009 at 7:58 am dey iz nahtrallee-akuren brede:
i prefer mines - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
elsabet commented on the word brede
From the OED:
(n.) Applied by the poets to things that show or suggest interweaving of colours, or embroidery, esp. to the prismatic colouring of the rainbow. But used by some modern writers in sense of 'colouring, dye', apparently from misunderstanding their predecessors.
1869 LOWELL Seaweed iv,
The same wave that rims the Carib shore
With momentary brede of pearl and gold.
June 28, 2007