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borun

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Searchable Lemmata: borun (AF).
Alternate Forms:

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; a flock or tuft (of wool).(circa 1200 - ante 1300)
1. floccis laneis: bort de lane, flocsouns de leyne, borun de lane, burres TLL ii 73 Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 73) ante 1300]
c.f.: bort, bure, burel, burl 1, flock
AF; Primarily Gloss.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Speculative, Uncertain. Perhaps related to bort (q.v., probably an error for borl(e)) and burre (see bure), found in the same gloss and of the same meaning.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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