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▪ I. † brune, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 bryne, byrne, (byrn), 2–4 brune |y|, 4 brene.
[OE. bryne:—OTeut. *bruni-z burning, f. ablaut stem brun- of brin-n-an to burn. Cf. ON. bruni:—*brunon- in same sense. The Kentish form was brene: brenne was rather a new formation on stem of ME. brennen, paving the way for the later burne, burn n.]
Burning, a burn.
c890K. ælfred Bæda iv. xxv. (title) (Bosw.) ær ðam ðe ðæt mynster mid bryne fornumen wære. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xx. 12 Ðæs ðæᵹes hæto vel byrn. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 130 Wiþ bryne, ᵹenim finules niþeardes. a1225Ancr. R. 296 Þe cwene..þet mid one strea brouhte o brune alle hire huses. a1240Ureisun in Lamb. Hom. 203 Þer þis brune were. 1340Ayenb. 264 Helle is..Vol of brene onþolyinde. [1523Fitzherb. Surv. 28 b, Catell hauynge no such brenne.]
fig.a1225Ancr. R. 254 Þe brune of golnesse.
▪ II. brune, n.2|bryn|
[a. F. brune, fem. of brun brown.]
A dark-complexioned girl or woman, a brunette.
1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. ii. 41 Now with a blonde, and now with a brune. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose xiii, Priscilla, a beady-eyed, brisk brune. 1894Meredith Ld. Ormont x, Brunes are exceptional in England. |