gold brocade
A luxurious fabric woven with gold threads, often used in traditional Japanese garments and Buddhist altar fittings.
This obi is woven with gold brocade.
金襴の打敷が仏壇を飾っていた。
A gold brocade altar cloth adorned the Buddhist altar.
gold-painted porcelain; kinrande ware
red bishop; southern red bishop
gold-brocaded satin damask
Standard kanji spelling for gold brocade.
Compound of 金 (kin, 'gold') and 襴 (ran, 'thin silk' or 'brocade'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with gold-threaded brocade.