Lexicographical Neighbors of Brechams
Literary usage of Brechams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1603-1706) by William Montgomery, George Hill (1869)
"Of the same materials the country people also manufactured their saddles, called
back-brechams. In Scotland, when they indulged in the luxury of a saddle at ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"Girls sneering at short little men, often say, " that they cudna breast a ratton
af a peat." brechams.—Collars for horses; anciently they were made entirely ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1899)
"234) thus : From the small solar in brechams court %s. 2d. From the great solar
in the same court 6s. Sd. From the little sellar %s. lod. and from the great ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1889)
"But we will go like corn-dealers, And lay our brechams on our meares. 5 'And twa
of us will watch the road, And ether twa will go between, And I will go to ..."
5. Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1827)
"We will not go like to dragoons, Nor yet will we like grenadiers ; But we will
go like corn-dealers, And lay our brechams on our meares. ..."
6. On Local Disturbances in Ireland, and on the Irish Church Question by Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1836)
"At that time there -were no saddles nor bridles, and (hey rode to church and
market upon brechams and pillions placed on the horses, and halters on the ..."
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