brayed, participial adjective

/breɪd/
Forms:
Also braid, brei’d.
Origin:
See bray verb2.
Of leather: worked, softened.
1850 J.D. Lewins Diary. 2 MayBought a brayed sjambok fm. Ezra for 2/-.
1858 T. Shone Diary. 29 Sept.She gave me a small braid buck skin.
1887 A.A. Anderson 25 Yrs in Waggon I. 140The young girls came decked out with a profusion of beads worked upon well-brayed leather, forming aprons.
1898 W.C. Scully Vendetta 60A warm cape of brayed lambskin which she was in the habit of wearing in cold weather.
1907 W.C. Scully By Veldt & Kopje 198His clothing was of brayed skin; his muscular arms were bare to the elbow.
1913 A. Glossop Barnes’s S. Afr. Hsehold Guide 318Good farm harness line is made from brei’d ox skins.
1936 Williams & May I Am Black 14He..had clothed his magnificent body with a short apron of yellow brayed buckskin.
1956 P. Becker Sandy Tracks 70An old man was tanning a brayed antelope skin with the palms of his hands.
1964 B. Tyrrell in Natal Mercury 24 Oct.Dress comprises a spade-shaped backskirt of brayed goatskin, apron of angora goatskin..and eight more body rings made of grass twists.
1970 Evening Post 14 Nov. (Mag. Sect.) 1The tight band of her skirt..was deeply kilted to the knees and made from brayed skin.
worked, softened.
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