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plural brinies
(obsolete) A coat of mail. quotations
In one of these mail-shirts, which is made of very delicate iron rings, each of them is riveted with a small nub of bronze, which must have given the brinie a very elegant appearance.
1867, George Stephens, Sven Söderberg, “The” Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, page 186