boreen
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of boreen
C19: from Irish Gaelic bóithrín , diminutive of bóthar road
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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
"Andy Smith has a horse, if he'd lend it; and there's a short road by Hogan's boreen."
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
They soon lost the track of the boreen, but they still continued to ascend, keeping by the sides of the loose built walls with which the land was subdivided.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
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 Katharine Tynan
At the boreen that turned up to the white house they parted with a hand-clasp that said their love was unchanging, no matter what happened.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan
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