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Boone

American  
[boon] / bun /

noun

  1. Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.

  2. Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.

  3. a city in central Iowa.

  4. a town in NW North Carolina.


Boone British  
/ buːn /

noun

  1. Daniel . 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Noons, she carts him his lunch topped with his favorite dessert, persimmons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noons of poppy, noons of poppy, Scarlet leagues along the sea; Flaxen hair afloat in sunlight, Love, come down the world to me!

From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Carman, Bliss

V. Morns like these we parted; Noons like these she rose, Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

Noons were hot, and nights were chill; bird carols were infrequent; chrysanthemums were unfurling their buds.

From Polly of the Hospital Staff by Dowd, Emma C.

Morns like these we parted; Noons like these she rose, Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two by Todd, Mabel Loomis

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