burel

The story

1. Late Latin · derived fromburra“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”
2. Old French · derived fromburel
3. Middle English · inherited fromburel
4. English todayburel

From Middle English burel, burrel, borel, from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”). Doublet of bureau, which was taken from later (early modern) French.

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