boreenn.
/ˈbɔːriːn/, U.S. /ˈbɔˌrin/, Irish English /ˈboʊriːn/, /ˈbɒːriːn/ Anglo-Irish.
A lane, a narrow road; also transferred an opening in a crowd. (Used only when Irish subjects are referred to.)
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the world > space > [noun] > unobstructed space > in a crowd
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun]
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1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 77 At my brother's, a piece down that boreen.
1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 287 Wheresomever he went, the people made a bohreen for him.
1882 R. Downey Congreve's Doom in Tinsley's Mag. At length we reached a narrow boreen, down which we drove.
1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. 138 I thought you were a dead man when you faced him at the bohereen.
1920 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 494 A campaign among bogs and bohireens.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 11/1 The grass-grown bohereen leading over the crest of the hill.
1953 N. Fitzgerald Midsummer Malice xv. 189 The quarter of a mile of bohereen that connected the stables to the main road.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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