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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1375, 1577-1638

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(Bra-side,) Bra-syd, n. Also: bray-side, -syde, brae-syde. [Bra n.] The face of a slope or hill.1375 Barb. iii. 127.
Rycht till the bra-syd he ȝeid a1578 Pitsc. I. 97/10.
Takand advantage of the bray syde 1601 Criminal Trials II. 354.
He … satt doun be ane brae syde 1638 Baillie I. 83.
We were … above fyve hundred on a bray-side

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