Also 6 bragerie, 7 braggry. [f. prec. + -Y; or a. F. braguerie.]
1. Bragging; vaunting speech.
c. 1571. trans. Buchanan’s Detect. Mary, in Campbell’s Love-lett. Mary (1824), 142. I could rehearse his glorious vain braggeries in France.
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 197. It is a meere vanity and foolish braggry.
1830. Mrs. Bray, Fitz of F., xxi. (1884), 172. Falsehood, braggery, a bold hand and a cruel heart, are fiends that walk in flesh and bones.
12. Rabble. Obs. rare.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 610. All the nobles of the Frenche courte were in garments of many colours, so that thei were not knowen from the braggery.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 861/1. Vagabonds, plowmen, labourers, and of the bragerie, wagoners and beggers.
