findrinny

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English

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Etymology

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From Irish fiondruine, a decorative white bronze used on bracelets and shields.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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findrinny (uncountable)

  1. White bronze.
  2. A kind of red bronze. [2]
    • 1889: A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode / On a horse with a bridle of findrinny — WB Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin, Book 1

References

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  1. ^ Ferocious Alphabets, Denis Donoghue, 1984, Columbia University Press, pp. 4-6.
  2. ^ Poems[1], W. B. Yeats, 1895, Glossary, p.283., retrieved 30June2011