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- noun Plural form of
boine .
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Note 168: Régime, p. 80: "c'est li aages ou li enfant detienent plus et aprendent les boines costumes et les malvaises costumes; et sachies que boinnes costumes sont garde de la sante du cors et de l'ame."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Vasilowich with performing of the same ceremonie causeth his forehead to be ful of boines and swellings, and sometimes to be black and blew, and very often to bleed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Warriors!" she said, you are assembled here, I believe, to deliberate on peace or war with the As-ne boines.
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Russes in doing reuerence and adoration vnto God doe beate their foreheads against the ground, this Iuan Vasilowich with performing of the same ceremonie causeth his forehead to be ful of boines and swellings, and sometimes to be black and blew, and very often to bleed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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