Brae
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɹeɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Brae is a noun meaning (Northern England, Scotland) The sloping bank of a river valley.
Meaning
(Northern England, Scotland) The sloping bank of a river valley.
More Meanings
- (Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope.
Example Sentences
The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.
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?
Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!
Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
Word Forms
- braes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mar, broogh, levee, scaur, bane, strand.
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