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Definition of 'boreen'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland.
* "Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by." — "Star of the County Down", traditional folk song
* 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 63:
- A boy in a disguise nobody believed in, an actor playing a part he didn't understand, he would trudge every rocky field and quaking bog, every pot-holed road and tortuous boreen , each of the thirteen villages on his father's estate, speaking the Irish he had learned from his father's servants.
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