braeface

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noun

The face, slope, or side of a brae.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounbraeface (plural braefaces)

plural braefaces

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandThe face, slope, or side of a brae.

    He was buried on the braeface, near the burn […]

    1929, John Brown, “Rab and his Friends”, in Everybody's Magazine, page 128
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    Evander, son of my heart, take the way by the kirkyard and spiel the braeface till you reach the shieling on the hill, and when you swing back the door it is no more you will need to ask what to do.

    1900, Torquil Macleod, “The Mad Laird's Will”, in The Celtic Monthly, volume 8, page 98

    [T]he left range was more open, with patches of poplar running up the valleys and burnsides, reminding one of the green braeface of the Highland glens.

    1921, Robert Campbell, “Discovery and Exploration of the Yukon (Pelly) River”, in The Beaver, volume 1, number 10, page 10

Origin

  1. Englishbrae
  2. Latinfaciēs
  3. Late Latinfacia
  4. Old Frenchface
  5. Middle Englishface
  6. Englishface
  7. Englishbraeface

From brae + face.

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