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Brasil [Portuguese bruh-zeel; Spanish brah-seel] Examples noun
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Brasil wood, which has a quality superior to that of Campeachy.
Le Page Du Pratz
The latter has not, however, multiplied so fast at Brasil as the sheep.
Buffon’s Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Sailing from Corunna, and passing by the Canaries, they came to the coast of Brasil, where they discovered an island in lat.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II
Robert Kerr
Brasil, s. dye made from a certain dye-wood (see note), B 4649.
Chaucer’s Works, Volume 6 (of 7) — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes
Geoffrey Chaucer
And being this distance from the same, thou shall cast about the other way towards Brasil, and the wind will be large.
Richard Hakluyt
British Dictionary definitions for brasil brasil noun
- a variant spelling of brazil
Brasil noun
- the Portuguese spelling of Brazil
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