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bosal

/boʊˈsæl/

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From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.

noun bosals

A type of noseband used on a horse.
alternative, uncommon Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony). At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it."

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@misc{bosal_2026,
  title = {bosal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bosal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}