- a variation of brier.
briar
Example Sentences
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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
Now he's caught in a briar patch of predatory lending endangering his life and his and Dennis' livelihood.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2023
Guests will have their final chance to plunge a five-story drop through a briar patch on May 30, giving Disneyland attendees one last busy Memorial Day weekend to experience the attraction in its current form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
During the reprise, a complaint by Cinderella’s Prince about the “thicket of briar, 100 feet deep” protecting Sleeping Beauty leads to a tongue-twisting musical exchange:
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
But the Specters had found their target, too, and they pressed in through the snagging tangle of bush and briar and root and branch, meeting no more resistance than smoke.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
