"system of embossed printing used as an alphabet for the blind," 1853, from Louis Braille, French musician and teacher, blind from age 3, who devised it c. 1830.
braid
braided
braidism
braids
brail
Braille
brain
brain trust
brain-child
brain-coral
brain-dead
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