braw
adjective
fine or fine-looking; excellent.
Example Sentences
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The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the brawly bouncing around that occurred last week in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, the rule still stood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tabbie laucht, an' brawly fleired, Ha, ha, the fleirin' o't; Tummas,—ech! but Tummas speired Ha, ha, the speirin' o't; Sic an awesome, fearfu' screep, Wakin' a' aroun' frae sleep; Fegs, it gar'd the Gudeman weep!
From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by John (AKA Dum-Dum) Kendall
The queen is brawly clothed in white linen, and in white and brown cloth; and the king is a braw man, well-favoured, and broad-faced.
From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by James Napier
Well said, sir; brawly said; 'tis the part of a good soldier to be ay wanting to be in the thick o' the fighting.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
