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Yule vs Yure - What's the difference?

yule | yure |

As nouns the difference between yule and yure

is that yule is (yule) while yure is (yorkshire|lancashire) hair.

As a determiner yure is

.

yule

English

Proper noun

(s)
  • Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 24th and January 6th).
  • A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.
  • Derived terms

    * Yuletide * Yule log * Yule tree * Yule wreath

    See also

    * jolly * * Sabbat * Christmas *

    References

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    yure

    English

    Etymology 1

    Determiner

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Kate Sanborn, title=Adopting An Abandoned Farm, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I've heard of yure old lot. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, title=Joy in the Morning, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA." }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure , a dark braan red. }}