burel

burel

English

Etymology

From Middle English burel, burrel, borel, from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”). Doublet of bureau, which was taken from later (early modern) French.

Noun

burel (countable and uncountable, plural burels)

1. A coarse woolen cloth.
   • 1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 199:

     Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.

Translations

coarse woolen cloth

Galician: burel m, pardo (gl) m Middle English: burel

Anagrams

• Brule, Brulé, Luber, Ruble, bluer, ruble

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Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. From Old French burel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾɛl/

Noun

burel m (plural bureis)

1. burel
   • 1274, Ramón Lorenzo, Colección documental do mosteiro de Montederramo, doc. 355:

     mando a Pero Mouro I saya de ualencina et I capa de burel

     I bequeath Pedro Mouro one robe of Valencian cloth and one cloak of burel

   Synonym: pardo

References

• “burel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “burel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “burel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “burel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “burel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure.

Alternative forms

• borel, borell, burell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈrɛl/, /ˈburɛl/, /bɔˈrɛl/, /ˈbɔrɛl/

Noun

burel (plural burelles)

1. burel (coarse woolen cloth)
2. A garment, especially if made of burel.

Descendants

• English: burel

Adjective

burel

1. (figuratively) lay, rustic unlearned

Descendants

• English: borrel, burrel
• Scots: borrell

References

• “burel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

burel

1. Alternative form of beryl

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Old French

Etymology

Diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”).

Noun

burel m (oblique plural bureaus or bureax or buriaus or buriax or burels, nominative singular bureaus or bureax or buriaus or buriax or burels, nominative plural burel)

1. frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
2. a garment made out of frieze

Descendants

• French: bureau
  • → English: bureau
• → Middle English: burel, borel, borell, burell
  • English: borrel, burel, burrel
  • Scots: borrell
• → Galician: burel
• → Spanish: buriel

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Spanish

Adjective

burel (plural bureles)

1. (bullfighting) reddish-brown (said of a bull)

Noun

burel m (plural bureles)

1. (heraldry) bar
   • 2015 July 9, “Vídeo: Violentas escenas en el tercer encierro de sanfermines”, in El País‎:

     La bajada a la plaza también ha sido rápida, aunque algún mozo ha afeado el espectáculo agarrando durante muchos metros el pitón izquierdo de uno de los bureles madrileños.

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Derived terms

• burelado

Further reading

• “burel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014