Feb. 7th, 2012

bourne

Feb. 7th, 2012 07:20 am
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bourne (bawrn, bohrn) - n., (arch.) goal, destination; (arch.) boundary, limit; a seasonally flowing stream or brook.


Borrowed in the 1520s from Middle French bourne, from Old French bodne, from (Medieval?) Latin bodina. "The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns," least of all Hamlet.

---L.

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