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Definition of Boreens
1. boreen [n] - See also: boreen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boreens
Literary usage of Boreens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Soul of Ireland by William J. Lockington (1920)
"Winding boreens go slipping by its white walls, and lose themselves in a maze
... As little children, these people came running along those boreens to the ..."
2. The Bookman (1911)
"The fairies are in the fields, fairies good and bad, and heaven only knows what
you may not come across if you wander through the boreens or across the ..."
3. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1914)
"Great stones had rolled down from the walls into the boreens leading from the
main, road up a landscape that it would be flattering to call hilly; ..."
4. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1843)
"It occurred in bis youth :— A man of the name of Baldwin, who lived in one of
the back boreens leading out of Bally Brecken, the western suburb of Waterford ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"... but a vast number of the houses have to be reached by the little boreens, or
across the wet. bogs or rocky pathway. ' Irish 'is tl-e language usually ..."
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