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bawn
[ bawn ]
noun
, Newfoundland.
- a rocky stretch of foreshore on which caught fish are laid out to dry.
- a patch of grassland or meadow near a dwelling.
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I allow ennybody's a bawn fool gits ketched twice runnin' ther same way.
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"Strues I'm bawn, I b'lieve he's done gone to sleep like ole Miss—he's settin' thar so still," she said.
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Ah wuz bawn in slavery, in spir'chual slavery; de good Lawd done riz me to freedom.
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The Colleen Bawn is a tissue of improbabilities and extravagances.
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"Then I shall write to Mr. Dent himself," said Mrs. Bawn indignantly.
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