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burel en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English burel, burrel, borel, from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”). Doublet of bureau, which was taken from later (early modern) French.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A coarse woolen cloth.
   • Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell. 1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 199:

Forms

Deriveds

burlap

Translations (3)

gl burel (coarse woolen cloth) · enm burel (coarse woolen cloth) · gl pardo (coarse woolen cloth)