brasse

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brasse¹

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Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (“bream”), and English bream.

noun brasses

  1. The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.

brasse²

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of brass As we returned to our own Convent, they brought us to Mount Moriah, and ſhewed us the place where Abraham offered up Iſaac, which is in the cuſtody of Nigroes or Æthiopians: to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Braſſe, the common coine of Ieruſalem, for our going in to that place.

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@misc{brasse_2026,
  title = {brasse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brasse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}