A child; so called from the Welsh, brat, a child’s pinafore; and brat is a contraction of brattach, a cloth, also a standard.
“Every man must repair to the brattach of his tribe.”—Scott.
“O Israel! O household of the Lord!
O Abraham’s brats! O brood of blessed seed!”
Gascoigne: De Profundis.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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