brede
Americannoun
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something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
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braiding or embroidery.
noun
Etymology
Origin of brede
Archaic spelling of braid, given a new pronunciation in accord with modern spelling conventions
Example Sentences
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As late as the fourteenth century an English manuscript begins "Nowe sues here a Tretis of Geometri whereby you may knowe the138 hegte, depnes, and the brede of most what erthely thynges."
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
Quhen Alysandyr oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle: Oure gold wes changyd into lede.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
To whom she answered and sayd: husbande, by this brede, ye are none.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
There feast thee on the brede of his long hair, Where half-grown roses royal blaze.
From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.
Chaucer says of the "Prioress"— "Of small houndes hadde she, that she fedde With roasted flesh, and milk and wastel brede."
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
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