Complete Definition of "bourne"

English

Noun
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  1. archaic A boundary.

#:..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.

  1. archaic A goal or destination.

See also
bourn

References
:s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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