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brough
/bɹaʊ/
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What does brough mean?
noun
- A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
- A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
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proper noun
- A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
- A hamlet in Collingham parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8358).
- A small village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2273).
- A settlement on Whalsay, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU5564).
- A settlement next to Burravoe, Yell, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU5179).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɹaʊ/
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Among breeders within recent years Mr. Edwin Brough, of Scarborough, is to be regarded as the most experienced and successful.
It looks wholly impossible; but Mr. Brough Smyth saw the feat and did the measuring, and set down the facts in his book about aboriginal life, which he wrote by command of the Victorian Government.
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Mr. R. Brough Smith informs me that an Australian from the interior was taken to the theatre to see an acrobat rapidly turning head over heels: “he was greatly astonished, and protruded his lips, making a noise with his mouth as if blowing out a match.”