"burel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: burels [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|burel}} Middle English burel, {{der|en|fro|burel}} Old French burel, {{cog|frm|bure||coarse woolen cloth}} Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), {{cog|fr|bourre||hair, fluff}} French bourre (“hair, fluff”), {{der|en|LL.|burra||wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric}} Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”), {{doublet|en|bureau}} Doublet of bureau Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} burel (countable and uncountable, plural burels)
  1. A coarse woolen cloth. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fabrics Derived forms: burlap Translations (coarse woolen cloth): burel [masculine] (Galician), pardo [masculine] (Galician), burel (Middle English)

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