Bostal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of borstal. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "When the practice was over it was still light, and Robert and Bessie turned inevitably along the little bostal that trickles through the fields […]"

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"When the practice was over it was still light, and Robert and Bessie turned inevitably along the little bostal that trickles through the fields […]"

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