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bornous

bornous is the alternative form of burnoose.

Meaning of burnoose

Noun

burnoose (plural burnooses)

  1. A thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa.
    • “I caught only a glimpse of an Arab in a dark-blue burnoose and white turban,” replied Tarzan.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 91

Forms of bornous

pluralbornouses

Questions about bornous

What is bornous the alternative form of?
Bornous is the alternative form of burnoose.

Words near bornous in the dictionary

  1. bornological
  2. bornologies
  3. bornology
  4. Bornou
  5. Bornouese
  6. bornous
  7. bornouses
  8. borns
  9. Bornstein
  10. Bornsteins
  11. bornt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bornous (page history and authors); burnoose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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