brave

[< Cdn F]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a male Indian, especially a warrior.

Quotations

1844

He says he will sing his own death song; that he is the son of a warrior, and he will die like a brave.

1958

Cameras clicked and whirred as the colorfully garbed chiefs, braves and squaws advanced. . . .

1964

But a brave from the Tobacco Plains . . . killed him. . . .

2n. — Rare

a young male Eskimo.

1936

He was glad when he saw the whip taken up by a dusky-skinned brave beside him.

3n. — (usually ironic)

any warrior.

1870

The massing of Fenian braves along the frontier commenced on Monday. . . .

1935

The braves from the East had not counted on this.