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.
† 2. 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.
