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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Braw \Braw\, adjective [See {Brave}, adjective] [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) 2.0 [wn]:
braw
adjective: 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}, {gay}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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