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Brocade


Definition:

  • (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
  • (2) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
  • (3) So I used floral brocade, but toughened up with black leather."
  • (4) Francis was just finishing a formal audience with a delegation of visiting Yazidis, and stopped in the gold brocaded Throne Room – where he typically receives visiting heads of state – to meet with Jolie and her crew.
  • (5) Sums don't add up While an affordable, programmable computer for schools is a step in the right direction, Nick Williams, senior product manager at networking specialist Brocade warned that the IT infrastructure within schools needed investment to support the connected device trend: “Whilst the devices on offer to schools have taken a quantum leap in affordability and accessibility, schools still exist with twenty-year-old networking technology and the sums just do not add up."
  • (6) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
  • (7) The effectiveness of a lytic enzyme preparation (Elase--Parke-Davis) plus natamycin (Pimafucin--Gist-Brocades) was compared to natamycin therapy alone in a controlled clinical trial involving 120 patients suffering from monilial vulvo-vaginitis.
  • (8) 64 patients whose gastric ulcer had not healed after 6 weeks of therapy with cimetidine in daily dose of 1000 mg were treated in a comparative short-term trial to assess the relative efficacy of misoprostol (Cytotec; Searle) in daily dose of 800 micrograms (I group; n = 32) and colloidal bismuth subcitrate (De-Nol; Gist-Brocades), four times a day in dose of 5 ml diluted with 15 ml of water (II group; n = 32).
  • (9) Electron microscopic examination of upper gastrointestinal biopsies with x-ray microanalysis was used to detect electron-dense particles of bismuth in the mucosa of the upper gastrointestinal tract, 30-60 minutes after oral dosing with either tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate [De-Noltab; Brocades (Great Britain) Ltd., Weybridge, UK; five patients] or bismuth salicylate (Pepto-Bismol; Richardson Vicks Ltd., Egham, UK; five patients), or without dosing (two patients).
  • (10) These were followed by pieces with more explicit military influence: frock coats with brocade crosses like the design of the Scottish flag, khaki jackets with saddle-bag pockets, and jumpers with a poppy print.
  • (11) But no sex.” Though the pair famously bicker (“He said, ‘Brocade.’ I said, ‘No.
  • (12) Directed by Steven Soderbergh for American TV , Behind the Candelabra is a tart, terrific biopic of Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson , who doubled as the pianist's brocaded chauffeur.
  • (13) Yet the new sensitivity to what was formerly a matter to brush behind the brocade sofas of gentleman's clubs suggests a change could be on the way.
  • (14) When Perry mounted a coming out ceremony for Claire in 2000 in a London gallery, he decorated his girly silk brocade frock with the teddy alongside penises tied prettily with green ribbons.
  • (15) The boy is short-haired and melancholic, his codpiece a sinister presence among the velvets and brocades in which he is clad.
  • (16) A satin-shoed foot emerges beneath a crisp brocade gown and steps gingerly on to the litter-strewn asphalt.
  • (17) Fuck brocade’” might be a typical exchange, according to Gabbana) a truce has been reached and now they work as a unit.
  • (18) 2.5% solution in the form of oral drops (Gist-brocades) has been used in the treatment of Candida albicans infections of the mucous membranes in children with chronic blood diseases.
  • (19) Twelve healthy male subjects were dosed with six regimens: ranitidine and De-Noltab (tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate; Gist-Brocades Ltd., Weybridge, England), placebo and De-Noltab, ranitidine and Pepto-Bismol liquid [bismuth salicylate; Procter & Gamble (Health and Beauty Care) Ltd., Egham, England], placebo and Pepto-Bismol, ranitidine and Roter tablets (bismuth subnitrate; Roter Pharma Ltd., Ashford, England), and placebo and Roter.
  • (20) Similar numbers of patients in each group were treated with 2 MIU intramuscular Bicillin (procaine penicillin 1.5 g plus benzylpenicillin 300 mg (Brocades, Weybridge, Surrey, England).

Brocage


Definition:

  • (n.) See Brokkerage.

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