Brocade vs. Lace — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Brocade and Lace
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Brocade
Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli", comes from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth", originally past participle of the verb broccare "to stud, set with nails", from brocco, "small nail", from Latin broccus, "projecting, pointed".Brocade is typically woven on a draw loom.
Lace
Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand. Generally, lace is divided into two main categories, needlelace and bobbin lace.
Brocade
A heavy fabric interwoven with a rich, raised design.
Lace
A cord or ribbon used to draw and tie together two opposite edges, as of a shoe.
Brocade
A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
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Lace
A delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern. Also called lacework.
Brocade
An item decorated with brocade.
Lace
Gold or silver braid ornamenting an officer's uniform.
Brocade
Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
Lace
To thread a cord through the eyelets or around the hooks of.
Brocade
(metaphoric) A decorative pattern.
Lace
To draw together and tie the laces of.
Brocade
To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.
Lace
To restrain or constrict by tightening laces, especially of a corset.
Brocade
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; - also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
A gala suit of faded brocade.
Lace
To pull or pass through; intertwine
Lace garlands through a trellis.
Brocade
Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
Lace
To trim or decorate with or as if with lace.
Brocade
Weave a design into (textiles)
Lace
To add a touch of flavor to
"today's chefs love to lace their goods with lively, pronounced flavors" (David Rosengarten).
Lace
To add a substance, especially an intoxicant or narcotic, to
Laced the eggnog with rum and brandy.
Lace
To add or intersperse with something in order to produce a certain effect
"Quacks now lace their pitch with scientific terms that may sound authentic to the uninformed" (Jane E. Brody).
Lace
To streak with color.
Lace
To give a beating to; thrash
Laced his opponent in the second round.
Lace
To be fastened or tied with laces or a lace.
Lace
(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
Lace
(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp
Your laces are untied, do them up!
Lace
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
Lace
Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
Lace
(ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
Lace
(transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
Lace
(transitive) To interweave items.
To lace one's fingers together
Lace
(transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Lace
(transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
Lace
(transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Cloth laced with silver
Lace
That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.
His hat hung at his back down by a lace.
For striving more, the more in laces strongHimself he tied.
Lace
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace.
Lace
A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.
Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces.
Lace
Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.
Lace
To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.
When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
Lace
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.
Lace
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
I'll lace your coat for ye.
Lace
To add something to (a food or beverage) so as to impart flavor, pungency, or some special quality; as, to lace a punch with alcohol; to lace the Kool-Aid with LSD.
Lace
To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine.
The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
Lace
To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.
Lace
A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
Lace
A delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
Lace
Spin or twist together so as to form a cord;
Intertwine the ribbons
Twine the threads into a rope
Lace
Make by braiding or interlacing;
Lace a tablecloth
Lace
Do lacework;
The Flemish women were lacing in front of the cathedral
Lace
Draw through eyes or holes;
Lace the shoelaces
Lace
Add alcohol beverages
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