Meaning & use
brae
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a hillside or steep bank, especially beside a river (chiefly Scottish and Northern English usage)
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They walked up the brae overlooking the loch.
Heather covered the brae in a haze of purple each August.
A note on using this word
Brae is a dialectal word most associated with Scottish English and Scottish place names, such as in the folk song 'The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond.'
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