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BLOOM: _ (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye) _ Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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And he said that it was a sugaun that was in it; and that people used to make the like of that down in Connacht.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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They are calling out now for a hay sugaun -- whatever kind of thing that is; the letters and the coach will be lost for want of a hay sugaun to bind them.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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And that's true; nobody in this place ever made a hay sugaun.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
brtom commented on the word sugaun
"In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008