brisure
English
Etymology
French brisure, from briser (“to break”).
Noun
brisure (plural brisures)
- Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
- (heraldry) A mark of cadency or difference.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brisure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
brisure f (plural brisures)
- chip (small broken piece of material)
Further reading
- “brisure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
brisure f
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