Obs. prob. F. broderie, broderie de soie silken embroidery or embroidered work. (It can hardly be = bawdry, BALDRIC.)
a. 1697. Aubrey, Misc. (1857), App. 216 (D.). The meeting of the gentry was … in the fields or forests, with their hawks and hounds, with their bugle-horns in silken bordries.
