What does brewis mean?
Brewis means (obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal.
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/bɹuːɪs/ · noun
(obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal.
[…] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
[…] he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater.
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Brewis means (obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal.
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[…] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
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