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boreen
/ ˈboːriːn /
noun
- a country lane or narrow road
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boreen1
C19: from Irish Gaelic bóithrín , diminutive of bóthar road
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Example Sentences
Little she thought that it was back at the Crooked Boreen by then, near five good miles away!
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Follow this road until you come to a boreen on the side of your thumb-hand.
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He brought the saint down to a boreen, and showed him the bull in the field and said to him, "Take him with you now if you can."
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Andy Smith has a horse, if he'd lend it; and there's a short road by Hogan's boreen.
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It was so overgrown with weeds and thistles, and so strewn with big boulders, that it was more like a boreen than decent fields.
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