Brocaded

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Featuring a textured surface enhanced by decorative weaving techniques that showcases intricate designs and patterns
2. Comprising materials that are skillfully crafted with raised motifs and complex designs to enrich their aesthetic quality
3. Displaying fabric that includes ornate raised patterns created through weaving techniques to add texture and visual interest

Etymology: Brocaded is simply the past participle and adjective form of "brocade," so its history is the history of the verb plus a regular ending. The "-ed" added to make it an adjective comes from Old English, where the suffix developed from older Germanic forms that marked past tense and past participles, a pattern that has carried through English for well over a thousand years. The base word "brocade" came into English from Spanish or Italian, where it referred to a richly woven fabric, and it is usually traced back to a Romance word for "to stud" or "to embroider." The older sense reflects the idea of a textile decorated with raised figures, and "brocaded" describes a fabric that has been finished in this way, with patterns standing out from the ground of the cloth.

Synonyms: ornamental, decorated, embroidered, adorned, trimmed

Antonyms: plain, simple, unadorned, bare, austere