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▪ I. † ˈboree1 Obs.
Also bory.
[ad. F. bourrée ‘a rustic dance belonging originally to Auvergne’ (Littré).]
A kind of dance, a bourrée.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i. (1684) 55, I am fit for Nothing but low dancing now, a Corant, a Boreè, Or a Minnuét. c1730Swift Tom & Dick Wks. 1755 IV. i. 261 Dick could neatly dance a jig, But Tom was best at borees.
▪ II. boree2|bɔəˈriː|
[f. bore v.2 + -ee1 2.]
A person who is bored.
1841J. S. Mill Let. 1 Mar. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 466 Instead of being the boree on the subject of an unfinished article I have a strong vocation for being the borer in respect of it. 1872Butler Erewhon ix. 79 They would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored..; in fact..they would be kept as professional borees.
▪ III. boree3|ˈbɔəriː|
[Aboriginal booreah fire.]
A variety of myall, Acacia pendula, found in Eastern Australia.
1878‘R. Boldrewood’ Ups & Downs iii. 29 Myall and boree belts of timber. 1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Native Plants 363 ‘Weeping’, or ‘True myall’... Called ‘Boree’ by aboriginals, and often ‘Boree’, or ‘Silver-leaf Boree’, by the colonists of Western New South Wales. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Nov. 24/1 Gidya and boree are good in most places [as fence posts]. |