Boleyn

[boo l-in, boo-lin]

noun

Anne,1507–36, second wife of Henry VIII of England: mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Contemporary Examples of boleyn

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Most of these cracks had been repaired, but not to the satisfaction of Boleyn and Prouty.
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Historical Examples of boleyn

She remembered to her dying day the humiliation of the Boleyn marriage.
The Reign of Mary Tudor
W. Llewelyn Williams.
The Boleyn party hated him,70 because they knew that he loathed the Boleyn marriage.
Ten Tudor Statesmen
Arthur D. Innes
"We have been reading all the morning," answered Anne surnamed Boleyn or Bullen.
Historical Miniatures
August Strindberg
Soft chirurgions make foul sores, said Boleyn, the grandfather of the beautiful and unfortunate Anne Boleyn.
The Funny Side of Physic
A. D. Crabtre
Boleyn, desirous of seeing his daughter queen of England, feared perhaps that he had taken a wrong course.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume V
J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

British Dictionary definitions for boleyn

Boleyn

noun

Anne . 1507–36, second wife of Henry VIII of England; mother of Elizabeth I. She was executed on a charge of adultery

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