Obs. rare. Also brandom. [a. F. brandon burning wisp of straw, etc.: com. Romanic:—L. type *brandōn-em, f. Teut. brand burning.]
1. A torch. lit. and fig. (Frequent in Drummond.)
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Shadow of Judgm. Her right hand swings a brandon in the air. Ibid., Poems, 14. His [Cupid’s] Darts … all for nought him serve as doth his Brandom.
ǁ 2. A kind of French rustic dance (see Littré).
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 175. The Brandons were celebrated in many cities in France the first Sunday of Lent, round bonfires of straw, whence they had their name.
