Crossword clues for mavourneen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mavournin \Ma*vour"nin\, Mavourneen \Ma*vour"neen\
(m[.a]*v[=oo]r"n[=e]n), n. [Ir. mo mhuirnin my darling; mo my
+ mhuirnin darling.]
My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or
woman. ``Erin mavournin.''
--Campbell.
Wiktionary
n. (context Ireland English) darling, sweetheart
Wikipedia
Mavourneen was billed as a comedy-drama bt George H. Jessop and Horace Townsend with music and lyrics by William J. Scanlan (who appeared in the show) and Bartley Campbell.
It was produced in New York on September 28, 1891 at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, and ran until December 25, 1891.
Usage examples of "mavourneen".
And yet he had never stopped loving his bonny mavourneen, even though at times he was hard-pressed to explain that unique love to himself, or to articulate it to her or anyone else for that matter.
I weed him the thousand and accept his Kathleen Mavourneen, which is a promise to pay that may be for years and may be forever, and the reason I do this is because I am by no means certain that Schultz may not incite his fellow soldiers to gang up and deprive me of my hard-earned twenty-five percent by force, if he can find out where I have it carefully buried.
Oh, Mavourneen darling of the world, the very name of Lake Killarney, where our cousins live, would make you well.
Fair City where it rains forty days a month the winter through, followed by the white-wine clarity of Kathleen Mavourneen, Macushla, and all the other tired lads, lasses, lakes, hills, past glories, present miseries, but all somehow revived and moving about young and freshly painted in the light spring, suddenly-not-winter rain.
Kathleen Mavourneen and Phil had taken the old lady with them, and I had forgotten to ring that snobby bitch Elizabeth.
Fair Dove, two Kathleen Mavourneen, two John Anderson, My Joe, two Within a Mile of Edinborough, etc.