brae

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse brá.

Noun [edit]

brae (plural braes)

  1. (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?

Scots [edit]

Noun [edit]

brae (plural braes)

  1. a hillside, hill
  2. a slope or bank
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