Brewis
//bɹuːɪs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades."
Example
More examples"[…] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades."
Etymology
Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).
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