Browbound

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    crowned; wearing a diadem or something resembling one. archaic, not-comparable

    "When he might act the woman in the scene, He proved best man i’ the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak."

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"When he might act the woman in the scene, He proved best man i’ the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak."

Etymology

From brow + bound.

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