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brough.

A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.

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Meaning & usage

noun/bɹʌf//bɹʊf/Northern-England
  1. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.

Where this word comes from

A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).

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