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Webster 1913 Edition
Brae
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brae
brae
English
Noun
brae (plural braes)
- (Scotland) The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
- 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid
- Degged with dew, dappled with dew
- Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
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1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 19:
- The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy: