browden
Middle English
Verb
browden
- Alternative form of brouden
Scots
Alternative forms
- browdin (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English brouden (“braided”), past participle of breiden.
Pronunciation
Adjective
browden
- Adorned, covered.
- 1780, Allan Ramsay, Poems on Several Occasions - Volume 1, page 64:
- His body was with blood a' browden, He grain'd like ' ony ghaist;
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- 1946, Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant: 55 B.C.-A.D. 1513, page 155:
- Thair best and browden bricht baneris And hors hewit on seir maneiris
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- 1987, Priscilla J. Bawcutt, Felicity Riddy, Thomas Crawford, Longer Scottish Poems: 1650-1830, page 111:
- The millart never notic'd Tam, Sae browden'd he the ba', He rumblid rudely like a ram, Dang o'er whiles ane, whiles twa:
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- Fond, attached.
- 1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:
- As scho delyts into the low, Sae was I browdin of my bow, Als ignorant as scho.
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References
- “brouden, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.