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Meaning of brills | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
    dialectal, plural, plural-only
  2. The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
    plural, plural-only

Examples

“PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.”
“Let waving locks adown his foretop fly, And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Brilyn brim Brimball Storehouse Cove Brimbin Brimble Brimblecombe

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