brae
Americannoun
noun
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a hill or hillside; slope
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(plural) an upland area
the Gleniffer Braes
Etymology
Origin of brae
1300–50; Middle English bra < Old Norse brā brow, cognate with Old English brēaw eyebrow, eyelid, Old High German brāwa ( German Braue ); for semantic development, cf. brow
Example Sentences
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We didn’t have a clue about the loch and the brae and the rye, but the music never failed to bring tears to our mother’s eyes and we were twisted enough to really love that.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019
The strumming of flamencos on a brae Were not more singular.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Smith Grant was winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly down the brae, And waly, waly yon burn side, Where I and my love wont to gae.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
They learned this on the loch, for there sometimes, just as you are quietly passing some tree-clad bank or brae, you all at once open out some beautifully romantic glen.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
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