byrnie

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  • Some clever person in Stalls observes that up to now, he has always thought that "'byrnie' was the affectionate diminutive for a mountain 'byrne' in Scotland." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892
  • However the effect of the operation for "byrnie" (which ought to have been performed by Dr. BYRNIE YEO, ever ready to rescue a fellow-creature in distress) is to show that the supposed Knight is a Lady. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892
  • I took a light chain-mail byrnie, of that wondrous Saracen make, which I had won from a chief when we were warring on the western frontier mountains by Roncesvalles, and belted it close to me that it should not rattle as I moved. —  A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
  • Bifrost's rainbow bridge I may not travel, for I do not die with byrnie on breast and sword aloft. —  Eric Brighteyes
  • Still, fear not: we shall soon meet with weapons aloft and byrnie on breast. " —  Eric Brighteyes
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  1. Middle English, also brunie, breny, brini, etc., earlier burne, from Anglo-Saxon byrne, a corselet, a coat, of mail, = Old High German brunna, brunja, Middle High German G. brünne = Icelandic brynja = Swedish brynja = Danish brynje = Gothic (Moesogothic) brunjo; hence Middle Latin brunia, bronia, Provencal bronha, Old French brunie, broigne, etc.: see broigne. Of uncertain origin; cf. Old Bulgarian bronja, corselet; Old Irish bruinn, breast.
 

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