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
I took a farewell look at the old walls, and stepped after my companion down the boreen.
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.
After about half an hour of this toilsome progress, for the surface is stony and rock-covered, she reaches the little "boreen" road which forms the approach to the house.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
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