v. Obs. Also broud. [a. OF. brouder, broder to stitch, embroider; but, from the beginning, its pa. pple. brouded, browded, was evidently associated with the native BROWDEN, pa. pple. of BRAID v., owing to contiguity of form and meaning. Cf. BRAWD, BROID, BROIDER.
Fr. broder is a Common Romanic vb., Pr. broydar, Sp. bordar to embroider.]
1. trans. To broider, embroider. Hence Browded ppl. a.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 227. Silk I broudede ful of grene grevys. Ibid. (c. 1386), Monkes T., 479. Alle hise clothes brouded [v.r. browded] vp & doun.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. ix. Eueryche his armes … Brouded or bete vpon his coote armure.
1493–1503. Ledger of A. Haliburton, in Cosmo Innes, Scotl. Mid. Ages, viii. (1860), 246. Packit in his kist at Bruges … two pound of silk to browd with.
2. To plait, ‘braid.’ (Cf. next and BROIDEN.)
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 191 (Harl. MS.). Here ȝolwe heer was browdid in a tresse [v.r. 4 MSS. broyded, 1 breided, Lansd. browded].
