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balmoral
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balmoral \Bal*mor"al\, n. [From Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.]
A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
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A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.
A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes.
--George Eliot.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume but no brim; a bluebonnet 2 A heavy walking shoe
WordNet
n. a sturdy laced walking shoe
a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side [syn: bluebonnet]
Wikipedia
Balmoral may refer to:
Balmoral (aka Liberty Hall) is a 1987 farcical play by British playwright Michael Frayn.
Category:Plays by Michael Frayn Category:1987 plays Category:Plays set in Scotland Category:Methuen Publishing books
Balmoral is the most southern of ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Belvoir; Finaghy; Malone; Musgrave and Upper Malone. Balmoral, along with neighbouring Botanic, forms the greater part of the Belfast South constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
The district is bounded to the west and south west by the M1 Motorway, to east and south east by the River Lagan, to the east and north east by the Malone Road and to the north by Belfast City Hospital, Queen's University Belfast and Royal Victoria Hospital.
The Lisburn Road is the main arterial route through the centre of the district, which also contains a number of public facilities including: the King's Hall conference and exhibition centre, the Musgrave Park Hospital, Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park and Windsor Park, the home ground of the Northern Ireland national football team. It is served by the Adelaide, Balmoral and Finaghy railway stations.
Usage examples of "balmoral".
Chapter i the gardens of Balmoral in the middle of August displayed as much glory as the devoted skill of the gardeners could achieve in the short-lived Scottish summer.
Aberknowe was one of several substantial granite houses on the Balmoral land which were occupied by the estate managers.
A groom led the ponies and the two nursemaids formed a chattering rear guard The road Richard chose sloped gently down towards the river, levelling out where the Balmoral bank sloped steeply down to the waterside.
Richard chose to stay with his grandmother at Birkhall, her house on the Balmoral estate nestling between sloping woods of birch and pine and its own concave garden hedged with yew.
There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle, and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy.
Afterwards he would join his father and brothers on the royal yacht, then go on to Balmoral, where Victoria would join him again for a week, and then they would go back to Cambridge.
Phil Addams refused to pay for him to follow them to Balmoral, and sent a local boy instead.
At Christmas a French magazine snatched a picture of Victoria looking gaunt and vacant as she went to church with her family at Aston Langley, and contrasted it with the happy picture of them both at Balmoral in the summer, but the British newspapers paid little attention.
When he returned to Balmoral he felt as if he himself were flat and one-dimensional like a photograph.
The family travelled to Balmoral a few days later and the clear air and dramatic landscape began to work their healing magic.
Carol Ashton and Sybil Quade at the wedding of Patricia James and Marcus Bourke at Balmoral Beach and afterwards at the Bathers Pavilion Restaurant at the same location.
Cindy muttered as she waited for the light at the corner of Balmoral and Avenue Road to change.
It seemed that even in her absence, Julia had taken up a disproportionate amount of space in the house on Balmoral Avenue.
Footage: Cindy, in the bedroom of the house on Balmoral Avenue,the month before Tom packs his bags and moves out.
Cindy muttered, racing back down Balmoral toward her house, hearing Elvis barking all the way down the street.