frawnn.
/frɔːn/, U.S. /frɔn/, /frɑn/, Irish English /ˈfrɑhən/ The Irish popular name of the bilberry n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > bilberry or myrtleberry
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > bilberry or myrtleberry
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1726 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Vaccinia nigra vulgaria..They grow in wet boggy Ground..the poor Women gather them in Autumn and cry them about the streets of Dublin by the Name of Fraghan.
1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 92 By the Irish they [Bilberries] are called ‘Frawns’.
1869 P. Kennedy Evenings on Duffrey xix. 208 They might..gather..fraughans in the woods.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names (at cited word) Frughans, Vaccinium Myrtillus..The old Irish name.
1892 J. Barlow Bog-land 69 Wee frauns.
1906 Temple Bar June 553 They trod the heather and fraughan beneath them.
1914 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Lost Tribes xi Under their shelter fraughan bushes nestled, their black fruit already ripening.
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