A bandit or brigand; a robber or outlaw (archaic or dialectal variant).
Variant or corruption of 'brigand' (from Old Italian 'brigata' meaning troop, and ultimately from Germanic roots). This is an older or dialectal spelling reflecting regional pronunciation variations.
This archaic spelling shows how English regional dialects preserved different pronunciations of the same word—'birgand' and 'brigand' coexisted in Middle English before standardization eliminated most variants from formal speech.
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