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bran-new en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic, not-comparable) Archaic form of brand new.
    alt of brand new
    • 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, […] 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:
    • 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. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 60:
    • 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, […] 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: