braided, ppl. a.
(ˈbreɪdɪd)
[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 colour, 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 On a Mourner 10 The swamp..With moss and braided marish-pipe. 1885 Century Mag. XXIX. 501, I sought..the place Of the wind-braided waters. |
e. Applied to a stream that divides, esp. at low water, into several channels.
| 1901 Science 15 Nov. 778/1 This extensive deposit..is the product of aggradation by braided or laced streams. 1940 Geogr. Jrnl. XCVI. 352 Three major types of rivers, actively downcutting, balanced meandering, and aggrading or braided. |