bawneen

British

/ ˈbɑːniːn /

noun

a variant spelling of báinín

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He seems an Aran fisher, for he wears The flannel bawneen and the cow-hide shoe.

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Peter Joyce was perfectly content to wear a "bawneen" of homemade flannel and a pair of ragged trousers.

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Indeed, I can't give you leave to do that," she said; "for a travelling man stopped for a night not long ago; and when he went away in the morning, he brought with him the flannel bawneen and the pants of the man of the house, that were hanging on the hedge to dry.

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"Isn't he the divil painted?" exclaimed another in highest admiration; "wait till I give him a couple of slaps of my bawneen, miss!"

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