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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 Best for Solo Train Enthusiasts: Scotland Discover the incredible and indelible beauty of the Scottish highlands, full of lochs, glens, castles and fluffy highland cows and sheep on a journey with Vacations by Rail.—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 In terms of materials, Brown describes their creation as a result of her early success, pointing to 2002’s Figures in a Landscape 2, her six-foot by almost seven-foot painting that sends you back to one of Fragonard’s forest glens, with the female in the gaze of the lurking male.—Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025 Aromas of a gorse glen, wet forest, cranberries.—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glen
Word History
Etymology
Middle English (Scots), valley, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish gleann, from Old Irish glenn
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