Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Brede \Brede\, or Breede \Breede\, n.
   Breadth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Brede \Brede\, n. [See {Braid} woven cord.]
   A braid. [R.]

         Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede.
                                                  --Tennyson.