bran-new
English
Adjective
bran-new (not comparable)
- (archaic) brand new
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
- We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, ...
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and bran-new. They must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show at all,
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
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