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Brame vs Brae - What's the difference?

brame | brae |

As nouns the difference between brame and brae

is that brame is sharp passion; vexation while brae is the sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.

brame

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) sharp passion; vexation
  • * Spenser, The Fairie Queene , Book III, Canto II, 52
    • ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.
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    brae

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
    • Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
  • *1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''
  • *:Degged with dew, dappled with dew
  • *:Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
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