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boreen
Wiktionary
n. (context Ireland English) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland.
Wikipedia
Boreen or bohereen (, pronounced ) is a country lane, or narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland. "Boreen" also appears sometimes in names of minor urban roads such as Saint Mobhi Bóithrín , commonly known as Mobhi Boreen in Glasnevin, Dublin. To be considered a boreen the road or path should not be wide enough for two cars to pass and in the case of a paved boreen it is desirable to have grass growing in the middle.
In parts of Ulster, a boreen is often called a loanin, an Ulster Scots word.
Usage examples of "boreen".
When she finally drove up the boreen and stopped the car in front of it, my hands were aching.
Hughes made an angry noise and stalked down the boreen, but Mr Coffey drifted over to me.
Hit a rock sticking up in a boreen or a rock flying up under it maybe.
He took three wrong turnings, the third into a winding country road that crossed and recrossed a river, only to deteriorate to a boreen and then end in a rutted field.
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
Cars the age of his sclerotic Fiat that had started out on such boreens had never reached their destinations.
On either side rose the thatched cabins of the peasantry, the peat smoke curling from the chimneys, the little boreens running through the bushes, the brown Irish bogs, the heather in blossom, the turf stacks, the laughing colleens.
Cars the age of his sclerotic Fiat that had started out on such boreens had never reached their destinations.
An acclimatised Britisher, he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as it were, through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
Now this first packet is a more or less promiscuous collection of what was growing in the boreen behind van Buren's house.