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Definition of Boreen
1. a lane in Ireland [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boreen
Literary usage of Boreen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gael: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Preservation and Cultivation of (1903)
"A Little Rugged boreen Far Away. There's a little rugged boreen far away! ...
O, that little rugged boreen far away! When the people sat at evening in the ..."
2. Ireland by Richard Barry O'Brien (1905)
"and on the same side of the boreen, a haggard— both yard and haggard being
separated from the boreen by a mud wall about four feet high. ..."
3. Thomas Drummond: Under-secretary in Ireland, 1835-40; Life and Letters by Richard Barry O'Brien (1889)
"At the entrance from the main road to the boreen a barricade was thrown up, and
behind this ... At the entrance to the boreen the peasant ' outpost' halted, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"Meanwhile His Magnificence was picking his way along the boreen ; not swearing over
... By this His Magnificence had steered himself safely up the boreen, ..."
5. The Middle Years by Katharine Tynan (1917)
"It drifted x>, and filled in the deeply-rutted boreen between igh hedges which
was our only means of exit from he dreadful farm. We doubted the ability of ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1899)
"boreen has, I fancy, the making of a very nice horse, but he is only half a horse
at present. They breed good animals in Ireland, and they teach them to ..."
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