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Quotation dates: 1475, 1585-1586
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(Brade-,) Braid-brestit, -breistit, adj. [Brade adj. 2.] Broad-breasted. — c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace (1570) ix. 1927.
Braid breistit, heich, with sturdy craig and greit a1586 Lindsay MS. 82.
Takynnis that we ar lyk to battelus bestis ar to be grit of extremiteis … and braid breistit
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