ppl. a. [wk. pa. pple. of BRAID v.1] In some senses of the vb.: a. Plaited, woven, entwined; fig. tangled, intricate, as a dance. † b. Braided wares: goods that have changed color, tarnished, faded. Obs. c. Embroidered; fig. rippled, as water by the wind. d. Trimmed with braid, as ‘a braided coat’ (mod.).
1494. Fabyan, VII. ccxxiv. 251. For that tyme clerkes vsed busshed and brayded hedys.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, I. iii. 185. To yeeld his braided ware a quicker sale.
1653. Gataker, Vind. Annot. Jer., 183. They may the better help to vend such braided wares.
1710. Steele, Tatler, 245, ¶ 2. Bracelets of braided Hair.
1721. Bailey, Braided, faded, that hath lost its colour.
1742. Collins, Ode Poet. Char., 48. In braided dance their murmurs join’d.
1758. Johnson, Idler, No. 13, ¶ 8. She has boxes filled with … braided shoes.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxxi. With braided tresses bounding o’er the green.
1821. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. 860. That planet-crested shape swept by on lightning-braided pinions.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxviii. A braided frock-coat and duck trowsers.
1865. Tennyson, Mourner, 10. The swamp … With moss and braided marish-pipe.
1885. C. W. Stoddard, in Century Mag., XXIX. 501.
| I journeyed lonely, and alone I sought | |
| The valley of the ages and the place | |
| Of the wind-braided waters. |
