browbound

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adjective

crowned; wearing a diadem or something resembling one.

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Meanings

adjectivebrowbound (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablecrowned; 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]

Origin

From brow + bound.

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APA

browbound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/browbound

MLA

“browbound.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/browbound. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “browbound,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/browbound.

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