Noun: brie
Sample Sentences
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And your socks smell of angels / But your life smells of brie [1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Don't Marry Her”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:]
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Up it goes to Instagram with the caption “I can’t brie-leave how good this is!!!”. There is no brie in this sandwich. [2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE:]
Nouns inflected like brie
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of Brie; see also Bourgogne. See: French Nouns '
brie'.