or bawdie house; bordelier, a wencher, haunter of baudie-houses. Cotgrave.
Adulterous friars are called brothels in Piers Plowman’s Crede, l. 1540, v. 2, p. 496, ed. Wright.
See Arth. and Merlin, &c., in Halliwell;—a blackguard, Towneley Mysteries, p. 142, “stynt, brodels, youre dyn.”
Browers, [199/663]; brower must be a napkin or doyley.
“Can it be a bib put on when taking broo or broth in, against the spilling of what is supped up? (Or rather, wiping the fingers from the broo, sauce, or gravy, that men dipped their bits of meat into.) Halliwell curiously explains broo, top of anything. ‘Tak a knyf & shere it smal, the rute and alle, & sethe it in water; take the broo of that, and late it go thorow a clowte’—evidently the juice. Ital. broda, broth, swill for swine, dirt or mire; brodare, to cast broth upon.”—H. Wedgwood.
Browes, [p. 160], last line; [p. 173].
A.S. briw, es.; m. Brewis, the small pieces of meat in broth; pottage, frumenty, &c., briwan, to brew. Somner.
Brows, how to use the, [210/29]; [213/132].
Browynge, [179/75], broth, grease.
See Browes.