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▪ I. broose Sc.
Also brooze, bruise, bruse.
[Sc. pron. (brøːz, bryːz): of unknown origin. The suggestion of Jamieson that the word is the same as brose or brewis is absurdly impossible; (though phonetically it might be broos, pl. of broo): mod.Sc. |øː, yː|, derives from OE. ó or Fr. u.]
A race on horseback, or on foot, by the young men present at country weddings in the north, the course being from the place where the marriage ceremony is performed (in Scotland the bride's former home) to the bridegroom's house. Hence to ride, run, win the broose. (The prize is usually a coloured silk handkerchief.)
It is understood to be a survival from primitive marriage customs: probably the whole wedding cortège formerly conveyed the bride at full gallop to the bridegroom's house; but now the race is kept up by the young men only, the rest of the procession following at leisure. Cf. bridelop, and the Teutonic synonyms there mentioned.
1786Burns To Auld Mare ix, At Brooses thou had ne'er a fellow, For pith and speed. 1788R. Galloway Poems 156 (Jam.) To think to ride or rin the bruise Wi' them ye name. 1845New Statist. Acc. Scotl. VI. 306 The broose or contest who shall first reach the house of the bridegroom is very keenly maintained. 1863J. Brown Horæ Subs. (ed. 3) 31 You know what riding the bruse means.
▪ II. broose
obs. form of bruise. |