Origin of Brand-new
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Most likely from brand in the sense of firebrand (a term often used for the heated glowing end of forged tool); implying something that is newly forged (first citation 1570), or less likely from brand as in a branding iron. The first element of the variant bran new, with the post nasal stop deletion common to English (compare the common pronunciation of hunting as hunning [hə.nʌŋ]), is often back etymologized as being from bran as if from cases where new items were supposedly "packaged up with unwanted grain (bran) in the 18th Century to protect the object during transit" (source unknown). Both variants are well attested.
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Brand-new Sentence Examples
A prom dress doesn't have to be brand new.
They moved into a brand new building a couple of months back.
He also controlled, with consummate ability, the operations of the brand-new Russian diplomatists at the various foreign courts.
The new Brownie uniform has brand new low-cut socks in great fun patterns.
I bought mine brand new from a local chandlery for less than £ 35.
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