[LG. Brunswîk, -swyk; Ger. Braunschweig.]
1. The name of a town and imperial province (formerly a duchy = Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) of Germany. In earlier times Hanover constituted the electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, whence the name ‘line of Brunswick’ = ‘line of Hanover’ applied to the English sovereigns from George I.
2. Hence the name of an obsolete textile fabric.
1480. Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. of York, 130. Brussell clothe dcc vij elles iij quarters: Browneswyke iiijxx ix elles.
3. attrib., in Brunswick black, a black varnish made of turpentine and asphalt or lamp-black; Brunswick green, a green pigment consisting of oxychloride of copper (Watts, Dict. Chem.).
