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bournous

bournous 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 bournous

pluralbournouses

Questions about bournous

What is bournous the alternative form of?
Bournous is the alternative form of burnoose.

Words near bournous in the dictionary

  1. Bourneville's disease
  2. Bournewood
  3. bournless
  4. bournonite
  5. bournonites
  6. bournous
  7. bournouses
  8. bourns
  9. Bournville
  10. Bourout
  11. Bourouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bournous (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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