braid —
“Since Frenchmen are so,”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 2.
73.
Here Steevens understandsbraid to mean
“crafty or deceitful;” while Richardson (in
his Dict.) would refer it to “the suddenness and violence” of Bertram's wooing. (In Dr. Latham's edition
of Johnson's Dict. is a long and very unsatisfactory
article on this word.)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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