Noun: bricole
| Singular | bricole |
| Plural | bricoles |
Sample Sentences
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The Bricole, pierced for 60, mounting 44 guns, twenty four and eighteen pounders, ſunk, her captain, officers, and company priſoners. [1780, “A list of the rebel ship of war taken or destroyed in the harbour of Charles-Town”, in Henry Mayo, editor, The London Magazine, volume XLIX, page 295:]
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And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible—as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers. [1893, Lew Wallace, The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume II, Books on Demand, published 2018, page 296:]
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Let Ill Conſequences be never ſo Remote, ’tis good however, with the Frogs here in the Fable, to have the Reaſon of Things at Hand. The Deſign of many Actions looks one way, and the Event works another ; as a Young Gameſter’s Couzen’d with a Bricole at Tennis. [1699, “The Frogs and the Bulls: Reflexion”, in Sir Robert L’Estrange, transl., Fables, of Æsop And Other Eminent Mythologists, 3rd edition, London: R. Sare, page 376:]
Nouns inflected like bricole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French bricole, from Late Latin briccola, bricola, of uncertain origin. See: French Nouns '
bricole'.