Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Borrel

Borrel ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old French burel a kind of coarse woolen cloth, from French bure drugget. See Bureau. Rustic and common people dressed in this cloth, which was prob. so called from its color.]

1.
Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

Borrel , adjective

[Probably from Borrel, n.]

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [Obsolete] — Chaucer