Irish: Anglicization of Irish Ó Bruadair, an ancient
Donegal sept name: it has also been derived, probably wrongly, from
Gaelic bruadar ‘dream’, ‘reverie’.In New England, an
Americanized form of French Brodeur.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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