brandreth
Americannoun
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a wooden fence around a well.
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an iron tripod or trivet placed over a fire.
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any similar support or framework.
Etymology
Origin of brandreth
1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse brandreith grate, equivalent to brand brand + reith vehicle (cognate with road, raid ); replacing Old English brandrād trivet and brandrida fire-grate
Example Sentences
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Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth also paid tribute to the "fabulous" and "amazing" Dame Jilly, summing her up in one word: "fun, fun, fun, fun".
From BBC
For current fans, “Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear,” by Gyles Brandreth, and “The Making of Winnie-the-Pooh,” by James Campbell, remind us of the verbal and pictorial pleasures of Pooh.
Mr. Brandreth, a British broadcaster and founder of Bear House, a teddy-bear museum, is widely knowledgeable in this period, having also written a play about the Milne family.
One of the strengths of Mr. Brandreth’s genial survey of the life and afterlife of Pooh is how much time he spends on other Milne works that have brought him pleasure.
Mr. Brandreth also appreciates quite a few of Milne’s 40 well-made plays, which fashionably skirt around then-trendy issues of authenticity and illegitimacy in the most un-Ibsen-like way possible.
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