braies

From French braies, from Old French braies, plural of braie, from Latin braca.

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

braies pl (plural only)

1. Braccae, breeches; an undergarment worn in medieval Europe.

• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

• Baiers, Serbia, braise, rabies, rebias

From Latin brācae (or brācas), plural of brāca, from Transalpine Gaulish [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛ/

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braies f pl (plural only)

1. (historical) breeches

• “braies”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• abries
• baiser
• braise, braisé

From Latin bracae, from Transalpine Gaulish [Term?].

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braies f pl

1. trousers
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], pages 539-40:

     Alle ira sû le coquet de l'Eglise ramendaïr les braies des viers garçons.

     She will get a seat on the weather-cock of the church and mend old bachelor's breeches.

2. (Jersey) underpants

• (underpants): drâses, p'tites braies