A variant spelling of brinjal, the eggplant vegetable, or alternatively, a brinjaree (traveling merchant).
Spelling variant showing the multiple ways the Hindi/Portuguese words for eggplant and merchant were adapted into English spelling.
This word highlights colonial English confusion—'brinjaul' could refer either to a vegetable or a person, depending on context, revealing how the same spelling adapted to different meanings.
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