brere
Middle English
Alternative forms
- brer, breir
Etymology
From Old English brēr, brǣr (“briar; bramble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /breːr/, /brɛːr/
Noun
brere
- briar
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [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)
Descendants
- English: briar
References
- “brēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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