boreen
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of boreen
C19: from Irish Gaelic bóithrín , diminutive of bóthar road
Example Sentences
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I walk around the graveyard in the old abbey at Mungret where my mother’s relations are buried and I go up the boreen to the Norman castle at Carrigogunnell where Dad brought me twice.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
At length I reached the ruined church Darby spoke of, and following the track he indicated, soon came out upon the boreen, where for the first time some little shelter existed.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
At last I came to a turning into a path several degrees worse in quality than the "boreen," and concluded that, as it was nearly impassable, it must lead to the home of the Irreconcilable.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
It was so overgrown with weeds and thistles, and so strewn with big boulders, that it was more like a boreen than decent fields.
From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine
“The devil a one of me can see anything or any one, except a fox scampering through the boreen beyond, with a water hen in his mouth,” said Micus.
From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas
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