Obs. Also 4–6 bruet, brewet(t. [a. F. brouet, broet (13th c. in Littré) soup made of flesh-broth, dim. of OF. breu, earlier bro (= Pr. bro, Sp. brodio, It. brodo, broda, med.L. brodium, brodum), late L. (*brodum) or Romanic (brodo), ad. OHG. brod BROTH. The OF. nominative brouetz, broez, gave BROWIS.]
Soup or broth of the juice of boiled meat, with various thickening ingredients.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeless, II. 51. Ȝoure side signes, þat shente all þe browet.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 22. Þese er hennes in browet.
c. 1420. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 661. Hic garrus, brewett.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 54. Browett, brodiellum.
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 430. Blaunche Bruet of Almayn.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 43. And broght me bruet of dere.
1495. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), I. xiii. 18 a/1. Hene dranke but a lytyll browet made with meele.
a. 1500. MS. 15th C., in Promp. Parv., 54. Bruet seec, bruet salmene, and bruet sarazineys blanc.
