Meanings
nounsweet-breare (plural sweet-breares)
plural sweet-breares
- obsoleteObsolete form of sweetbrier.
Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare, / The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare […].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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