braver
(ˈbreɪvə(r))
[f. brave v. + -er1.]
One who braves, or faces, danger or an enemy; also formerly, a braggart, boaster.
| 1589 Nashe in Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 16 Who..would carrie the bucklers full easilie from all forreine brauers. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Fanfarron, a bragger, a brauer. 1827 Gentl. Mag. XCVII. ii. 42 Buonaparte..the undaunted braver of every difficulty. 1846 Dickens Lett. (ed. 2) I. 156 Such a braver of conventionalities never wore petticoats. |