brazil n also brasile, the brazil(s). Cp OED (1864 quot for pl). Esp in pl, the northern provinces of Brazil served by the seaport of Pernambuco, a market for dried and salted cod-fish; also attrib ~ fish, ~ market, ~ trade.
   1620 WHITBOURNE 18 Sundry Portugall ships haue come thither purposely to loade fish from the English, and haue giuen them a good price for the same, and sailed from thence with it to Brasile, where that kinde of fish is in great request. 1883 Fish Exhibit Cat 175 Drum containing 128 lbs. Codfish, prepared for the Brazil market. 1888 Colonist Christmas No 2 He commanded the Orion, which vessel was then at Lance-au-Roi awaiting a cargo of fish for the Brazil. 1953 Nfld Fish Develop Report 41-2 The market for Newfoundland fish is found in the northern provinces of Brazil, where the preference is for well-cured fish of 'Madeira' quality. T 168/70-65 That madeira went to Brazil. They call that Brazil fish. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 64 [Sailing vessels] carried our salt cod to market in ... Brazil or, to give [it] the name by which it was best known here, 'the Brazils.' 1973 HORWOOD 18 The other vessel ... was considerably larger, and suitable for the Brazil trade.

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