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In less than 10 minutes, a wooden bridge deposits us on the doorstep of a cinematic landscape that unfurls into a seemingly endless patchwork of rolling hills and glens in hues of umber, cinnamon, and ochre, flanked by mountains standing sentinel on either side.—Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026 Her outfit stayed inside Browne’s gray suit vocabulary, layering a glen-check blazer with strong shoulders layered over a matching waist panel and pleated detail at the hip, finished with the brand’s red-white-blue grosgrain tab at the hem.—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 7 Feb. 2026 This is also what allows what’s outside its doorstep to take precedence: the soul-stirring glens, spirit-rejuvenating streams, and craggy peaks of Cairngorms National Park.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026 Easing out of Glasgow Central station, the Glasgow-to-Mallaig line follows the mighty River Clyde before darting into the wild glens of Loch Lomond.—James March, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glen
Word History
Etymology
Middle English (Scots), valley, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish gleann, from Old Irish glenn