Definitions
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- noun Ireland A
waistcoat with sleeves made form undyed flannel, typically worn by labourers. - noun Ireland The flannel cloth such waistcoats are made from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Peter Joyce was perfectly content to wear a "bawneen" of homemade flannel and a pair of ragged trousers.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs Bock The Robber 2010
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs Bock The Robber 2010
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs Bock The Robber 2010
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs 2010
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs 2010
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs 2010
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"wait till I give him a couple of slaps of my bawneen, miss!"
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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"Indeed, I can't give you leave to do that," she said; "for a travelling man stopped for a night not long ago; and when he went away in the morning, he brought with him the flannel bawneen and the pants of the man of the house, that were hanging on the hedge to dry.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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