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for braw
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Braw \Braw\, a. [See Brave, a.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
1. Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons
or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new
gown." --Burns.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Good; fine. "A braw night." --Sir W. Scott.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
braw
adj 1: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave
new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a
Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years";
"birds with gay plumage" [syn: brave, braw, gay]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "braw":
Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, auspicious,
becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, bravura,
bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous,
capital, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cogent, comely,
commendable, cosmopolitan, curvaceous, curvy, dapper, daring,
dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant,
estimable, excellent, exhibitionistic, expedient, exquisite, fair,
famous, favorable, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly,
frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, goddess-like, good,
good-looking, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, jaunty, jazzy, kind,
laudable, likely, lovely to behold, natty, neat, nice, nifty,
nobby, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, posh,
presentable, profitable, rakish, recherche, regal, ritzy, royal,
shapely, sharp, showy, sightly, skillful, sleek, slender, smart,
smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sound, spiffy,
splashy, splendid, splurgy, sporty, spruce, stacked, statuesque,
style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, useful,
valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-dressed, well-favored,
well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-proportioned,
well-shaped, well-stacked
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