bran-new

English

Adjective

bran-new (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of brand new.
   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 60:

     But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter IX”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, […]

   • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and bran-new. They must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show at all, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary