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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOREE

n.A certain dance, or movement in common time, of four crotchets in a bar; always beginning in the last quaver or last crotchet of the measure.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOREE

BOREE Bo *ree ", n.

 

Defn: Same as BourrÉ \'82. [Obs. ] Swift.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

boreen

bo reen |bôˈrēn bɔrˈin | ▶noun Irish a narrow country road. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Irish bóithrín, diminutive of bóthar ‘road. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

boreen

boreen |bɔːˈriːn | ▶noun Irish a narrow country road. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Irish bóithrín, diminutive of bóthar ‘road ’.