Braver

[f. BRAVE v. + -ER¹.] One who braves, or faces, danger or an enemy; also formerly, a braggart, boaster.

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1589. Nashe, in Greene’s Menaphon (Arb.), 16. Who … would carrie the bucklers full easilie from all forreine brauers.

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1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Fanfarron, a bragger, a brauer.

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1827. Gentl. Mag., XCVII. II. 42. Buonaparte … the undaunted braver of every difficulty.

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1846. Dickens, Lett. (ed. 2), I. 156. Such a braver of conventionalities never wore petticoats.

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