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adjective
Braw  adj.  (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
1.
Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown."
2.
Good; fine. "A braw night."





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... than Lowland, and there were chiefs and chieftains and Lowland lords, and there were pipers. I heard naught, but it was as though bright shadows were around me. There was a height like a Good People's mount, and a braw fine-clad lord speaking and reading frae a paper, and by him a surpliced man to gie a prayer, and there was a banner pole, and it went up high, and it had a gowd ball atop. The braw lord stopped speaking, and all the Hielandmen and Lowlandmen ...
— Foes • Mary Johnston
... its very braw," answered Sandy,—but she could obtain no further expression of admiration from him, for having lived near the loch nearly all his life, he saw ...
— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston
... his gardening gloves, that he might pat his child's cheek and tickle its chin to make it coo and smile. He might have been excused if he was proud of his boy, for he was a noble little fellow,—a "braw chiel," as he was pronounced to be by his grand-aunt, Mistress Tibbie Mactavish, who had presided at his birth,—and likely to do no discredit to the ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
... lass, you and that braw lad of yours are like David and Jonathan, and" (with a stern wag of his white head) "I'm not so sure that I won't turn myself into Saul and fling my javelin at him ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... of a young lord o' the Hielands, A bonnie braw castle had he, And he says to his lady mither, 'My boon ye will grant to me: Sall I gae to Edinbruch city, And fesh hame a lady ...
— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series • Various


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