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▪ I. ‖ brut, n.|bruːt|
Also 5 brout.
[= M.Welsh brut, mod.W. brud, in the names of the Welsh chronicles of British history, as in the Brut Gruffudd ab Arthur of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Brut Tysilio, Brut y Tywysogion, etc. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welsh (1547) has ‘Brut, Walshe prophecies’; Davies 1632 ‘Brud, brut, historia, chronica; sumitur et pro vaticinio.’ The Welsh Bible has (Dan. ii. 27) brudwyr ‘brut-men’ = soothsayers. Brut ‘chronicle’ was a transferred use of Brut = Brutus, as in Le Roman de Brut of Wace, and the Brut of Layamon, a chronicle or genealogy of the legendary Brutus and his descendants in Britain. Whether the transferred sense arose in Welsh, or was taken from a French title, as the Brut of Wace, or the later Petit Brut of Raoul de Bohon (c 1350), is doubtful; but the latter is more likely. For the Brutus legend, see Brute2.]
A chronicle of British history from the mythical Brutus downward. (The ME. instance may refer to Wace, Layamon, or some Welsh Brut.)
c1450Arth. & Merl. (Mätz.) 2740 So ich in the brout yfinde. 1845Athenæum 4 Jan. 9 A Greek version of our brute-epos. 1847J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church Pref. 7 The only other remains still extant of Ancient Welsh literature consist of Bruts, or Chronicles. 1883H. M. Kennedy Ten Brink's E.E. Lit. 188 A history of those who first had possession of England ‘after the flood’ or as a Norman would, perhaps, even then have called it, a Brut.
▪ II. † brut, v. Obs.
Also 7 brutte.
[perh. a. F. brouter ‘to browse’: but cf. bret, brit v.]
1. intr. To browse. Hence brutting vbl. n.
1577[see brutting vbl. n.]. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Wds. 60 To brutte, to browse. Suss. Dial. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 145 Marking what the goats so greedily brutted upon.
2. trans. dial. To break off (young shoots).
Mod. Kent. Dial., Your potatoes don't come up because the young shoots were brutted off.
▪ III. ‖ brut, a.|bryt|
[Fr.]
Of wines: unsweetened.
1891Longman's Mag. Aug. 417 An especial brand of brut champagne. Ibid., Brut wines. 1896Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 399 Tell my man to bring me a quail, broiled, and a pint of Piper Heidsieck, brut. 1932Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 12 Washing it down with a brut champagne of a vintage year.
▪ IV. brut
obs. form of bret, a kind of fish. |