Brae-laird noun this is perhaps another name for a Gypsy: At the wedding of a favourite Brae-laird, in the shire of Kinross, Peter Robertson [the leader of the Gypsies who was the person able to perform a valid marriage ceremony] appeared at the head of a numerous band of Tinklers... 19. etymology: Scots brae ‘a hill’ + Scots laird ‘the landlord of landed property or an estate’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants |