browbound

English

Etymology

brow +‎ bound

Adjective

browbound (not comparable)

1. (archaic) crowned; wearing a diadem or something resembling one.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     When he might act the woman in the scene,
     He proved best man i’ the field, and for his meed
     Was brow-bound with the oak.

References

• “browbound”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.