burel

English

Etymology

From Middle English burel, burrel, borel, from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”). Doublet of bureau, which was taken from later (early modern) French.

Noun

burel (countable and uncountable, plural burels)

1. A coarse woolen cloth.
   • 1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, p. 199.

     Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.

Translations

coarse woolen cloth

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• Galician: burel m, pardo m

Anagrams

• Brule, Brulé, Luber, Ruble, bluer, ruble

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Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. From Old French burel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾɛl/

Noun

1. burel
   • 1274, Ramón Lorenzo, Colección documental do mosteiro de Montederramo, doc. 355:

     mando a Pero Mouro I saya de ualencina et I capa de burel

     I bequeath Pedro Mouro one robe of Valencian cloth and one cloak of burel

   Synonym: pardo

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “burel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “burel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Old French

Etymology

Diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”).

Noun

burel oblique singular, m (oblique plural bureaus or bureax or buriaus or buriax or burels, nominative singular bureaus or bureax or buriaus or buriax or burels, nominative plural burel)

1. frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
2. a garment made out of frieze

Descendants

• → English: borrel, burel, burrel
• French: bureau
  • → English: bureau
• → Galician: burel
• → Spanish: buriel

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Spanish

Adjective

burel m or f (masculine and feminine plural bureles)

1. (bullfighting) reddish-brown (said of a bull)

Noun

burel m (plural bureles)

1. (heraldry) bar

Derived terms

• burelado