19 August 2017
braw
[braw, brah]
adjective, Scot. and North England.
1. fine or fine-looking; excellent.
2. finely dressed; dressed in a splendid or gaudy fashion.
Origin of braw
1555-1565 First recorded in 1555-65; variant of brave
Related forms
brawly, brawlie, brawlis, brawlys [braw-lis, brah-] (Show IPA), adverb
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Examples from the Web for braw
Historical Examples
They rade on braw wee white naigs, wi’ unco lang swooping tails, an’ manes hung wi’ whustles that the win’ played on.
The Fairy Mythology
Thomas Keightley
They’re a braw set of men, and there’s many a gude Scotchman among them.
Ben Comee
M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
His lairdship wrote a braw note of acknowledgements to my maister, and gie it me to take away.
The Lost Lady of Lone
E.D.E.N. Southworth
Ye’re as braw as Bink’s wife,—like the sun on shairney water.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop
Well, it was no such a braw thing to me that night, as it had seemed on the previous day.
The Record of Nicholas Freydon
A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
After all, this braw wooer was bearing himself with manly dignity.
Lover or Friend
Rosa Nouchette Carey
“He’s a braw lad,” he rumbled, as he busied himself about the stove.
Connie Morgan in Alaska
James B. Hendryx
The children had left off their mourning, and Gabrielle was braw with sashes and trinkets.
Missy
Miriam Coles Harris
He’s sending in a cart by a groom, and I’m to tak’ Bobby out and fetch him hame after a braw dinner on gowd plate.
Greyfriars Bobby
Eleanor Atkinson
It’s a braw thing that ye are no’ to meet wi’ her the nicht.
The Men of the Moss-Hags
S. R. Crockett
Today’s quote
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
– Lord Acton
On this day
19 August 14AD – death of Augustus Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire and first Roman Emperor. Born 23 September 63BC.
19 August 1662 – death of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour. Born 19 June 1623.
19 August 1900 – start of the first Olympic cricket match, played in Paris. It is the only Olympics in which cricket was played.
19 August 1919 – Afghanistan Independence Day, in which Afghanistan declared its independence from Britain.
19 August – World Humanitarian Day – a day to recognise those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. 19 August was chosen because it is the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, which killed Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative for Secretary-General to Iraq and 21 of his colleagues. The day seeks to draw attention to humanitarian needs worldwide and the importance of international cooperation in meeting these needs.