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noun
- (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 of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater. " Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun
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).
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