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brack
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synonyms: rent ???
tags: [obsolete]
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Definition:tear, crack
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As therefore the sweetest rose hath his prickle, the finest velvet his brack, the fairest flower his bran, so the sharpest wit hath his wanton will, and the holiest head his wicked way.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, (1578)
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Three and eleven she paid for those stockings in Sparrow's of George's street on the Tuesday, no the Monday before Easter and there wasn't a brack on them and that was what he was looking at,
James Joyce. Ulysses
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