brae
(Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope.
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Born ~2007 · 1 year of recorded useLate-Millennial / Web 2.0 eraSee decade cohort →
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope.
The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(Northern England, Scotland) The sloping bank of a river valley.
You are directed to the particular part of the brae where the Covenanters stationed themselves, (at the time of my visit it was a field of pasture, on which some cows were quietly feeding,) and the eminence behind, [...]
Origin: [[File:Gulch Scotland ss 2007.JPG|thumb|Braes (sense 1) of a river valley in Scotland, United Kingdom]] From , bra, from (probably in the sense of the brow of a hill), from , from . The English word is cognate with , brēaw, (, modern ), , brāha; and is a. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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“♪ #nowplaying Coming back for more (feat.Brae Leni) - Tom Funk (What's it gonna be ? - 2026) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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