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boreen

/ ˈːː /

noun

  1. a country lane or narrow road
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boreen1

C19: from Irish Gaelic óٳí , diminutive of óٳ󲹰 road
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Boreen and Zellner expressed enthusiasm for what the multipronged project will mean for Texas A&M;’s trees, the campus’s aesthetic and its general health.

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Sarah Boreen, customer relations manager for SSC, said talks have been ongoing about the best method regarding the declining trees on campus.

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Heavy-equipment manufacturer Exodus Machines considered expanding in Minnesota but opted to add jobs in Superior after Walker's economic-development agency secured a loan, said chief executive Kevin Boreen.

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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.

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It was Ned who leaped the old bounds' ditch at the turn of the boreen of the lands of Reenascreena, after the English captain pulled up on looking at it, and cried out it was "No go."

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