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▪ I. † burel1 Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: ? 3, 4–5 borel, 4–7 burel, 5 borelle, burell, 6–7 burrell, 8 burail.
[a. OF. burel (now bureau), a kind of cloth, dim. of bure, fem. ‘coarse (? brown) woollen cloth, bay, baize’, of uncertain origin, referred by Diez, Littré, and others to an adj. which appears in OF. as buire ‘dark brown’:—late L. *burreus, *burrius, f. L. burrus red, commonly taken as ad. Gr. πυῤῥός red. Cognate words to F. bure, buire, are Lomb. bur, It. bujo dark; to burel, Sp. buriel, Pr. burel, red-brown; also Sp. buriel, Pg., Pr. burel, coarse woollen cloth. See bureau.]
A coarse woollen cloth (prob. originally of brown colour: cf. baize); frieze; a garment of this fabric; (plain) clothing.
c1300K. Alis. 5475 The kyng..dooth on a borel of a squyer. c1300Pol. Songs 221 In a curtel of burel. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 356 If I be gay sire shrewe, I wol renne out, my borel [in 6 MSS., Petw. burel] for to shewe. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour E ij, Of the valewe of one of her gownes .I. poure peple had had .I. ellys of burell or fryse. 1600Queen's Wardr. in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. III. 511 Item, towe remnants of blacke burrell, conteyninge both together 12 yeardes. 1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) I. iii. v. 579/1 Burels, or Cloth-listed, according to the Constitution made for Breadth of cloth. Ibid. II. v. x. 286/2 Cloth ought to have been two Ells wide from List to List which was called Burrells. [1876Rock Text. Fabr. vi. 65.]
b. attrib.
a1400Eng. Gilds 351 Non ne shal make burelle werk, but ȝif he be of þe ffraunchyse of the town.
▪ II. † ˈburel2 Obs. rare—1.
A spoke of a wheel.
c1325Gloss W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 167 Mes les rays [bureles] de la charette En les moyaus [in the nawes] untreceyte.
▪ III. burel(l
var. of borrel a. Obs. lay, rude. |