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Any clue as to what these signify? Close I think I know.
by hardlianotion 9y ago
Any clue as to what these signify? Close I think I know.
- arethuza 9y agoA brae is a hill/slope, close is a narrow lane running off a high street. A loan I had to look up and this sounds plausible: "A "loaning" is a piece of uncultivated ground where cows are milked. A 'loan' is the path leading to said place."
- dghf 9y agoA close is an alleyway off which one or more doors to residential tenements open. Alternative names are entry, court, and wynd, with some nuances: a court is more likely to open up into a courtyard, and a wynd more likely to be a means of getting from A to B, rather than just somewhere people live.
- arethuza 9y agoJust though of another one: "vennel" - which I thought was just The Vennel in Edinburgh but which actually seems to just be an example of a vennel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennel