Obs. Also 6 broyde. [A variant of BRAID v., app. owing its form to the pa. pple. BROIDEN, q.v. for the oi.] trans. To plait, intertwine, interweave.
Hence Broided ppl. a., Broiding vbl. sb.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1051. Hir yelow heer was broyded [So 4 MSS., 1 breided, 2 browded] in a tresse.
1530. Palsgr.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 53. Broydyn [1499 broyded laqueatus. 471/1. I broyde heare, or a lace, or suche like, je tortille.
1535. Coverdale, Judith x. 3. She … broyded and plated hir hayre.
1559. Heywood, Seneca’s Troas (1581), 114 b. Forget henceforth thy captiue state and seemly broyd thy hayre.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 80. Plaiting and broiding of herbes and floures.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Tresses, lockes of hayre broyded vp.
1624. Bacon, New Atl. (1677), 253. Curiously wrought with Silver and Silk of divers colours, broyding or binding in the Ivy.
