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buron

buron noun: a traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.

Noun

buron (plural burons)

  1. (often italicized) A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.
    • According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'1996, Simone A. Abram, “Reactions to Tourism: A View from the Deep Green Heart of France”, in Jeremy Boissevain, editor, Coping with Tourists, →ISBN, page 194

Forms of buron

pluralburons

Origin of buron

Borrowed from French buron, from Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (“cabin, hut”), from Frankish *būr (“dwelling, residence”), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“room, chamber, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become, live, dwell”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“room, cage”), English bower, Swedish bur (“hutch, coop, cage”). Doublet of bower.

Questions about buron

What does buron mean?
Buron means a traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.
What part of speech is buron?
Buron is a noun.
What is the plural of buron?
The plural of buron is burons.

Words near buron in the dictionary

  1. burocracy
  2. burocrat
  3. burocratic
  4. burocrats
  5. Burol
  6. buron
  7. burong isda
  8. burong mangga
  9. burong mustasa
  10. Buronga
  11. burons

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