How to pronounce“brusque”in English
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Definitions of “brusque”
Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
“Mr. VValler, being probably of opinion that Monſieur Palamede’s arguments vvere too bruſque to be advanc’d in a diſpute vvith a Lady, vvho number’d not fevver than tvventy Kings of her progenitors, vvrote this poem in a more tender and courtly ſtyle; […]”
Sour, tart.
“[T]he thin and bruske harſh vvine doth nouriſh the bodie leſſe, but yet more agreeable and nutritive it is to the ſtomack.”
To act towards (someone or something) in a curt or rudely abrupt manner.
“Had this been done, Denine had not been bruſqued and carried by Villars at the firſt aſſault, […]”
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