English
Etymology
Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet �gruel�), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod �sauce� (English broth).
Pronunciation
IPA: /bɹu:ɪs/
Noun
brewis
- (obsolete except in dialects) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
#:*1885: (...) an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades. � w:Richard Francis Burton|Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5
#:*1964: (...) he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater. � Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun
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