brise

brise (plural brises)

1. (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
   • 1616: Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme, page 92

     Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

• “†brise” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

• biers, birse

From Middle Low German brise (“breeze”).

• IPA^(key): /briːsə/, [ˈb̥ʁiːsə]

brise c (singular definite brisen, plural indefinite briser)

1. breeze

• IPA^(key): /bʁiz/

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brise f (plural brises)

1. breeze

brise

1. first-person singular present indicative of briser
2. third-person singular present indicative of briser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of briser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of briser
5. second-person singular imperative of briser

• “brise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bries
• sbire

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃə/

brise

1. present subjunctive analytic of bris

brise f

1. genitive singular of bris

Of Germanic origin.

brise f (plural brises)

1. (Jersey, weather) breeze