• (RP) IPA: /bɹeɪ/, /bɹɪə/, /bɹiː/
• (GA) IPA: /bɹeɪ/

brae (plural braes)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) The sloping#Adjective|sloping bank#Noun|bank of a river valley.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818)​, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 82790126 ↗, page 77 ↗:

     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?

   • 1869, Robert Burns, “Ye Banks, and Braes, and Streams around. Air.—Katharine Ogie.”, in Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume IV, Kilmarnock, Scotland: Printed by James M‘Kie, OCLC 892088677 ↗, page 77 ↗:

     Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!

   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462 ↗, stanza 3, page 53 ↗:

     Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

   • 1899, “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, in Robert Ford, editor, Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland: With Many Old and Familiar Melodies […], Paisley, Renfrewshire; London: Alexander Gardner […], OCLC 639624272 ↗, page 161 ↗:

     By yon bonnie banks, and by yon bonnie braes, / Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomon', / Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae, / On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.

2. (Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope#Noun|slope.