braunche
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
braunche (plural braunches)
- Obsolete form of branch.
- 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus xxxvij:[19], folio LXX, recto:
- And on euery braunche were iij. cuppes like vnto almondes, wyth knoppes and floures thorow out the ſixe braunches that proceded out of the candelſticke.
Middle English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
braunche (plural braunches)
- A branch (of a tree)
- Something dividing or extending like a branch.
- A lineage; the kin of someone.
- A descendant; a scion.
- (theology) A category of sin.
- (rare) A portion.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “braunch, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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