Brewer's: Brasenose

(Oxford). Over the gate is a brass nose, the arms of the college; but the word is a corruption of brasenhuis, a brasserie or brewhouse. (Latin, brasinium.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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