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Boreen vs Moreen - What's the difference?

boreen | moreen |

As nouns the difference between boreen and moreen

is that boreen is (ireland) a narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in ireland while moreen is a thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

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.

    Anagrams

    * * English words suffixed with -een

    moreen

    English

    Noun

  • A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)