Definition of "gold braid" []

• Trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He wore a Hussar jacket so frogged with gold braid that it was impossible to see the cloth beneath, a white kid-skin pelisse edged with black fur, and skintight sky-blue cavalry breeches decorated with gold embroidery and silver side-buttons."
• "Decked out in gold braid and crimson, with epaulets high and fully fringed, their Regent was in genial and expansive good humor, retelling heroic tales of derring-do drawn from the dispatches of recent engagements, most notably that of Waterloo."
• "Outside an open barouche stood, its sides gleaming like black oil, gold braid holding back the half-collapsed hood."