Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Brent-hill

means the eyebrows.

Looking
or gazing from under brent-hill. In Devonshire means “frowning at one;” and in West Cornwall to brend means to wrinkle the brows. It is very remarkable that the word should have such opposite meanings.

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