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Rere vs Bere - What's the difference?

rere | bere |

As nouns the difference between rere and bere

is that rere is (all meanings) while bere is (chiefly|scotland) barley, especially (six-rowed barley).

rere

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (all meanings).
  • (Irish, legal, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
  • Quotations

    * 1678 "In the rere' of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the '''rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." ''The Triumphs of London'' (Reprinted 1869 in ''Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London , by John Benjamin Heath) * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere , to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33 * 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere ." Ulysses , Chapter V James Joyce * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule * 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area * 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere , and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent , 18 November 2009

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * reredorter

    References

    * rere at Wordnik

    Anagrams

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    bere

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bear

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) Barley, especially (six-rowed barley).
  • Anagrams

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