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/bɔːˈɹiːn/ · noun
(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle..
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.
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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Boreen means (Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle..
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Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.
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