braw
adjective
fine or fine-looking; excellent.
brawlie
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a word derived from
braw.
Example Sentences
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Wherever we stopped how brawlie he suited himsel' to everybody!
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
O Meikle thinks my luve o' my beauty, And meikle thinks my luve o' my kin; But little thinks my luve I ken brawlie My tocher's the jewel has charms for him.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
But Tam kenned what was what fu' brawlie.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
Now ev'ry sour-mou'd girnin blellum, And Calvin's folk, are fit to fell him; Ilk self-conceited critic skellum His quill may draw; He wha could brawlie ward their bellum— Willie's awa!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The Qwein of Fearrie is brawlie clothed in whyt linens, and in whyt and browne cloathes, &c.; and the King of Fearrie is a braw man, weill favoured, and broad faced, &c.
From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray
