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单词 burrio
释义

burrioburion.

Forms: Also 1600s burreo; see also bourreau n.
Etymology: < French bourreau, earlier boreau, borel.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A hangman, an executioner.
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c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. ii. f. 65v/2 He was burio to hym self mair schamefully than we mycht deuyse.
1567 R. Sempill Deeclaratioun Lordis Iust Quarrell (single sheet) Syne with his Burrio [she] band ane new mariage.
1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 322 Should ye be burrioes to your brethren?
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft 324 The Devil..had made her associates..to be their own burrioes.]
figurative.a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets lix Lovers..Thoght they persaivd that Burrio Death to bost within [hir] eyis.
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