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語源

From 古期英語 brēr, brǣr (“briar; bramble”).

発音

• IPA: /breːr/, /brɛːr/

名詞

brere

1. 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)

派生した語

• English: briar

参照

• “brēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.