browbound
adjEtymology From brow + bound.
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Archaic crowned; wearing a diadem or something resembling one.
- When he might act the woman in the scene, He proved best man i’ the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]: