embraid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
embraid (third-person singular simple present embraids, present participle embraiding, simple past and past participle embraided)
- (transitive) To braid up, to plait.
- embraided hair
- embraided locks
- (obsolete, transitive) To tell off; to reprimand
- Synonym: upbraid
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- Minutius , who embraided him with cowardice
References[edit]
- “embraid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.