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brae Definition

brae (brā, brē)

noun

Scot. a sloping bank; hillside

Etymology: ME bra, bro < ON bra, eyelid, brow, river bank: see braid

brae Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • steep: Back at Queensferry, the heavily-loaded car always struggled very hard to get up the steep brae from the Hawes Inn.
  • heather: Many a poor man I passed that would never move or see the heather clad braes of his native heath.

Modifies a noun

  • face: Areas of commercial and amenity woodland on the " brae face " and the low ground contribute to a variegated landscape.

Noun used with modifier

  • school: Then I walked down the south school brae where I once traveled all those years ago.
brae Quotes

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

—Ballads

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