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braver|ˈbreɪvə(r)| [f. brave v. + -er1.] One who braves, or faces, danger or an enemy; also formerly, a braggart, boaster.
1589Nashe in Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 16 Who..would carrie the bucklers full easilie from all forreine brauers. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Fanfarron, a bragger, a brauer. 1827Gentl. Mag. XCVII. ii. 42 Buonaparte..the undaunted braver of every difficulty. 1846Dickens Lett. (ed. 2) I. 156 Such a braver of conventionalities never wore petticoats. |