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braw
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tags: [ireland]
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Definition:fine, handsomeP.W. Joyce. English As We Speak It in Ireland (1910)
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"Ay! Listen to the Highland tongue!" said Mr. Home. "Look up, Polly!
Answer this 'braw wooer;' send him away!"
Charlotte Brontë. Villette
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"Weel, Sir Charles, she'll no be exactly what you'd be ca'ing a bonny lass," Mrs. M'Lachlan replied; "but she's a guid body for a' that, an' a fine braw woman."
Grant Allen. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897)
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“Well. It was a braw speech, but damn reckless, [...]"
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Here, Jock braw Hielentman's your barleybree.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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