Boarden

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of boards or wood; wooden not-comparable

    "After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor."

Example

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"After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor."

Etymology

From Middle English borden, bordyn, burden, equivalent to board + -en (“made or consisting of”).

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