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BLOOM: _ (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye) _ Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating.
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And he said that it was a sugaun that was in it; and that people used to make the like of that down in Connacht.
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They are calling out now for a hay sugaun -- whatever kind of thing that is; the letters and the coach will be lost for want of a hay sugaun to bind them.
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And that's true; nobody in this place ever made a hay sugaun.
brtom commented on the word sugaun
"In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008