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burel

burel noun: a coarse woolen cloth.

Noun

burel (countable and uncountable, plural burels)

  1. A coarse woolen cloth.
    • Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 199

burel meaning in Tamil

burel in Tamil

கம்பளித் துணிவகை

Forms of burel

pluralburels

Origin of burel

From Middle English burel, burrel, borel, from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”). Doublet of bureau, which was taken from later (early modern) French.

Words formed from burel

Questions about burel

What does burel mean?
Burel means a coarse woolen cloth.
What is burel in Tamil?
Burel in Tamil is கம்பளித் துணிவகை. See Burel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is burel?
Burel is a noun.
What is the plural of burel?
The plural of burel is burels.

Words near burel in the dictionary

  1. bureaux plats
  2. Bureen
  3. Burehifasdhoo
  4. burek
  5. bureks
  6. burel
  7. Burell
  8. burelle
  9. burelles
  10. Burells
  11. burels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burel (page history and authors); burel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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