noun
definition
The sloping bank of a river valley.
definition
Any hillside or slope.
Examples of brae in a Sentence
Brae signifies the steep bank of a river, and so any slope or hill-side.
Cromwell in his Scottish campaign built the Citadel in 1650 and the mounds on the links, known as "Giant's Brae" and "Lady Fife's Brae," were thrown up by the Protector as batteries.
Among the most prominent of these men in addition to Brae, Chevalier and Chabannes, were Tristan Lermite, Jean de Daillon, Olivier le Dain (the barber), and after 1472, Philippe de Commines, drawn from the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy, who became his most intimate adviser and biographer.
Back at Queensferry, the heavily-loaded car always struggled very hard to get up the steep brae from the Hawes Inn.
Then I walked down the south school brae where I once traveled all those years ago.
The proposal to solve line of site problem at bottom of Brae is to form extended cobble nib into road.
By the mid 1800s, Brae had emerged as a crofting township on the east shore of Busta Voe.
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In the cervical region the ribs are much reduced, fused with their verte brae and enclosing the transverse canal or foramen.
The first hawthorn hedges in Scotland are said to have been planted by soldiers of Cromwell at Inch Buckling Brae in East Lothian and Finlarig in Perthshire.