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† burret Obs. rare.
[a. F. bouret, buret, used to render L. murex, also conchylium, in Du Pinet's transl. of Pliny 1566, whence Holland may have obtained the word.]
Used to render L. murex, a kind of shell-fish yielding a dye.
1601Holland Pliny ix. xxxvi. 258 The Murex or Burret. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. viii. xvi. 373 Conchyls, burrets, oysters, and others of the purple kind [Lat. conchyliis, muricibus, et ostreis]. Ibid. 374 footnote, The murex, which some call a burret. |