brise

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• IPA^(key): /bɹaɪz/
• Rhymes: -aɪz

brise (plural brises)

1. (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
   • 1616: Richard Surflet and Gervase Markham , Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme, page 92

     Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

• “†brise” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary

• Biser, biers, birse

From Middle Low German brise (“breeze”), of uncertain origin (see brise below).

• IPA^(key): /briːsə/,
• Rhymes: -iːsə

brise c (singular definite brisen, plural indefinite briser)

1. breeze

Origin obscure. Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from a Germanic language, but the exact source is unclear; possibly Frankish *brāþi (“steam, vapor”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁiz/

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brise f (plural brises)

1. breeze

• → Romanian: briză

brise

1. inflection of briser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “brise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• bries
• sbire

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃə/

brise

1. present subjunctive analytic of bris

brise f

1. genitive singular of bris

Of Germanic origin.

brise f (plural brises)

1. (Jersey, weather) breeze

brise

1. inflection of brisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative