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▪ I. bure1
[Fr.: see burel.]
A coarse woollen stuff.
1585Edinb. Test. XIV. 230 b (D.O.S.T.), Ane steik of buir. 1591Ibid. XXIII. 298 Of braid claytht for cloiking callit bure. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 64 Bures Stuff white per Piece. 1853C. Brontë Villette III. xxx. 23 He wished to counsel me, whenever I wore it [sc. a coloured dress] to do so..as if its material were ‘bure’. 1909Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 15/2 A favourite material with some of the best French designers is the coarse sacking of which nuns make their dresses... It is called bure; the finer makes of it are combined with velvet. Ibid. 9 Oct. 15/1 The fabric of the season is undoubtedly the coarse bure which takes its name from the stuff used for the costumes of monks in the Middle Ages.
▪ II. ‖ bure2|ˈbjuːreɪ|
[Fijian.]
A Fijian house.
1843T. Williams Jrnl. 21 Jan. (1931) I. 140 He was sitting in a bure with some of the ‘old ones’ whilst his yang-gona was being prepared. 1963A. Burns Fiji 6 There are typical Fijian houses, the bure, with thatched roofs and sides. 1970Observer (Colour Suppl.) 15 Feb. 24/1 When you've gotten your bearings in Nadi Town head out to native bures (thatched huts).
▪ III. bure
obs. Sc. f. bore, pa. tense of bear v.1; obs. f. birr, bower n.1
▪ IV. bure
var. buer. |