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[ FEW: 1,479b braca; Gdf: 1,718b braiel; GdfC: ∅; TL: 1,1112 braiel; DEAF: braie (braiel); DMF: braiel; TLF: ∅; OED: brail n.1; MED: brail n.; DMLBS: 214a braiellum ]

braele, braer; braheal, brahel, braiel, braier, braihel, brail, braioel, braiol, braoil; breelle;
pl. braelis, braelleis, braeuz

s.1breech-girdle, belly-band, drawers, breeches ♦ breeches 2leather thong, strap ♦ brail, small rope attached to the sail to haul it in before furling 3waist, rump, belly ♦ brail, rump or belly of a falcon

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1costumebreech-girdle, belly-band, drawers, breeches:

( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii ) du chief de son braier une clef deffermerent i 82.2008

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) li cops avala, ne fist arestement Tresqu’il vint al brael 3402

( MS: c.1250 ) De vestibus. [...] hoc subligar: brael i 416

( c.1290; MS: s.xv¹ ) al braiel [...] Pen la lanere que vous attache Les. ij. chauces (B) 94v

( MS: s.xiii² ) lumbare: (C) brayel (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) uardecors; (L: xiii/xiv) vesture de reyns) ii 68.65

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) ventrale: (C) brael ii 170

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) brachileum: brayl ii 57.92

( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) hoc brachile: (D) brael ii 55.92

♦costumebreeches:

( MS: s.xiii ) lumbaribus: breelles, anglice bregeldelis ii 110.63

( MS: s.xiii ) lumbaria: (C) brael (var. (B: s.xiii) braeuz ) i 227

2leather thong, strap:

( c.1290; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) Si ert le chartil de bons braheals (M.E. wyythes) Ferm lyez as esseals (5) 152v

( s.xiv¹; MS: s.xv² ) un brahel a cartdehel 26.L50 (D)

( s.xiv¹; MS: s.xv² ) brael id est a cartwyche 26.L50 (D)

♦ ship. brail, small rope attached to the sail to haul it in before furling:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Les braiols funt lacier al mast Que li venz par desuz ne past 11231

3anat.waist, rump, belly:

( 1356-57; MS: s.xiv^ex ) ly baume [...] vient des petites arbresteaux qe ne sont mye plus haut qe jusques au braier d’un homme 153

♦orn.falc.zool.anat.brail, rump or belly of a falcon:

( MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) Li braieus (var. (D: 1272-82) brayol) ch’est une tuffete de blance plume vers le fundement desos le keue 36B

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