browbound
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
browbound (not comparable)
- (archaic) crowned; wearing a diadem or something resembling one.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- When he might act the woman in the scene,
He proved best man i’ the field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak.
References[edit]
- “browbound”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.