ppl. a. Forms: see prec. [f. BROIDER v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Ornamented with needlework; embroidered.

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1450, etc.  [see BROIDER v. 1].

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1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 182. Whens come braudered gardis?

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c. 1570.  Cambyses, in Hazl., Dodsley, IV. 175. Now may I wear the brodered guard.

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1611.  Bible, Ezek. xvi. 13. fine linen & silke, and broidered worke.

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1633.  G. Herbert, Temple, Forerunners, iv. Thou wilt soil thy broider’d coat.

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1848.  Lytton, Harold, IV. iii. All covered with broidered peacocks.

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  2.  fig.

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1616.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. ii. They priz’d the brodred vale.

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1745.  T. Warton, Pleas. Melanch., 27. Adieu green vales! ye broider’d meads, adieu!

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1853.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. Spaces of broidered field and blooming mountain.

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