browden

Middle English

Verb

browden

1. Alternative form of brouden

Scots

Alternative forms

• browdin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English brouden (“braided”), past participle of breiden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʌudən/

Adjective

browden

1. Adorned, covered.
   • 1780, Allan Ramsay, Poems on Several Occasions - Volume 1, page 64:

     His body was with blood a' browden, He grain'd like ' ony ghaist;

     His body was with blood all covered, He groaned like any ghost;

   • 1946, Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant: 55 B.C.-A.D. 1513, page 155:

     Thair best and browden bricht baneris And hors hewit on seir maneiris

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   • 1987, Priscilla J. Bawcutt, Felicity Riddy, Thomas Crawford, Longer Scottish Poems: 1650-1830, page 111:

     The millart never notic'd Tam, Sae browden'd he the ba', He rumblid rudely like a ram, Dang o'er whiles ane, whiles twa:

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2. Fond, attached.
   • 1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:

     As scho delyts into the low, Sae was I browdin of my bow, Als ignorant as scho.

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References

• “brouden, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.