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单词 welsh brief
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Welsh brief
Welsh brief n. Obsolete (probably) a brief (in senses of brief n.1) which is unduly long or unintelligible.
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1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. i. 89 in Wks. II It [sc. the deed] is a thing of greater consequence, Then to be borne about in a blacke boxe, Like a Low-countrey vorloffe, or Welsh-briefe.
1704 T. D'Urfey Tales 107 From Purse Perfum'd he straight does pull His late got Diabolick Scrowl, Then reads the horrid jargon, writ As barbarous as a Dutch Gazette, Or a Welch Brief, when Gutter'd o'er In a bleak Church on Penmenmaur [sic].
extracted from Welshadj.n.
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