A variant of braid.

brede (plural bredes) (obsolete)

1. Ornamental embroidery.
   • 1746, William Collins, “Ode to Evening”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove

   • 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: ">…] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12:

     The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede;

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part VI”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 127:

     So those two foes above my fallen life, / With brow to brow like night and evening mixt / Their dark and gray, while Psyche ever stole / A little nearer, till the babe that by us, / Half-lapt in glowing gauze and golden brede, / Lay like a new-fall’n meteor on the grass,

2. A braid.

• Breed, berde, breed, rebed

• IPA^(key): /breːðə/,

From Old Norse breiða, from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to broaden”).

brede (past tense bredte, past participle)

1. (transitive) to spread
2. (reflexive, intransitive) to spread

• brede ud
• udbrede

• “brede” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brede

1. definite singular of bred
2. plural of bred

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bre‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə
• Homophone: Breede

brede

1. inflection of breed:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• breed

From Old English brǣde, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *brādō, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”). Doublet of brawne.

• bræde, bræd (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

brede (plural bredes)

1. (collectively) (Pieces of) roasted meat.
2. (specifically) A piece of roasted meat.

   Synonym: hastelet

3. (hunting) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.

   Synonym: hastelet

• breden (“to grill”)

• Scots: brede

• “brēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• David Scott-Macnab (2010) “The Medieval Boar and its Haslets”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎, volume 111, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 355-366

From the oblique cases of Old English bred, from Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą.

• bræde (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/, /ˈbrɛd(ə)/

brede (plural bredes)

1. board, slab
2. tablet (small board with writing)

• moldebred
• paxbrede

• Scots: bred

• “brēd, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English brǣdu, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *braidī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄.

• breed, breede, breide
• bræde, breade (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

brede (uncountable)

1. breadth (measure of how wide something is):
   1. A piece of fabric of standard width.
   2. (geometry) A circle's diameter.
2. extent (space to which something extends):
   1. The total extent of a surface or object.
   2. (figurative) The extent or totality of one's feelings.

• breden (“to spread”)
• bredthe
• hondbrede
• weybrede

• English: bread (“breadth”) (dialectal)
• Scots: brede, breid

• “brēde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

brede

1. alternative form of bred (“bread”)

brede

1. alternative form of breid

brede

1. alternative form of brerd

brede

1. alternative form of breden (“to grill”)

brede

1. alternative form of breden (“to spread”)

brede

1. alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

brede

1. alternative form of breiden

brede

1. definite singular of bred
2. plural of bred

brede m (definite singular breden, indefinite plural bredar, definite plural bredane)

1. alternative form of bre

• IPA^(key): /ˈbre.de/

brede

1. dative singular of bred

From English bread.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbre.de/

brede

1. bread

• Aukan: beele
• Saramaccan: bëë́ë
• → Kari'na: perere

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “brede”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

brede

1. definite natural masculine singular of bred

• beder, bered