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Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
The thing which is boasted of.
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson,, published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
Beauty is Nature's brag.
2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
brag (third-person singular simple presentbrags, present participlebragging, simple past and past participlebragged)
(intransitive, often with of) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, (Third Folio), London: Thomas Hodgkin, for H Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “brag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies