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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English brēr, brǣr (“briar; bramble”).
Pronunciation
Noun
brere
- briar
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
With thikke brustles of his berd unsofte,
Lyk to the skyn of houndfyssh, sharp as brere.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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