Obs. rare. [a. F. bouret, buret, used to render L. murex, also conchylium, in Du Pinet’s transl. of Pliny 1566, whence Holland may have obtained the word.] Used to render L. murex, a kind of shell-fish yielding a dye.
1601. Holland, Pliny, IX. xxxvi. 258. The Murex or Burret.
1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., VIII. xvi. 373. Conchyls, burrets, oysters, and others of the purple kind [Lat. conchyliis, muricibus, et ostreis]. Ibid., 374, footnote. The murex, which some call a burret.
