Noun: brinie
| Singular | brinie |
| Plural | brinies |
Sample Sentences
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In one of these mail-shirts, which is made of very delicate iron rings, each of them is riveted with a small nub of bronze, which must have given the brinie a very elegant appearance. [1867, George Stephens, Sven Söderberg, “The” Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, page 186:]
Nouns inflected like brinie
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 Middle English brinie, whence also (by metathesis) byrnie. See: Middle English Nouns '
brinie'.