browden

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Middle English

Verb

browden

  1. Alternative form of brouden

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English brouden (braided), past participle of breiden.

Pronunciation

Adjective

browden

  1. 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;
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 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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  2. 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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