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Definition of 'brewis'

English

Noun

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  • (obsolete|or|dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
  • :* 1885': (...) an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and '''brewises , fritters and cooling marinades. — , ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Vol. 5
  • :* 1964': (...) he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking '''brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater. — Anthony Burgess, ''Nothing Like The Sun