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Webster 1913 Edition

Brae

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Brae

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Noun.

[See

a hill.]

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

[Scot.]

Burns.

Definition 2024

brae

brae

See also: bræ and -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
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 19:
  The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.

Scots

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbreɪ/

Noun

brae ‎(plural braes)

a hillside, hill
a slope or bank

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