toun
Britishnoun
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a town
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a farmstead
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"A porter, sir?" said the innkeeper—"there's naething o' the kind in the toun; but I'll get twa callants to tak it alang."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
“I thought o’ going into the toun, Mither.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The king sits in Dumfermline toun Drinking the blude-red wine.
From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock
Nor was this deemed sufficient humiliation, for the offender was afterwards made to stand at the market cross two hours "in the jaggs, and thereafter cartit through the haill toun."
From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
I hope your feyther didna go to the toun today.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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