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buron

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Borrowed from French buron, from Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (“cabin, hut”), from Frankish *būr (“dwelling, residence”), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“room, chamber, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become, live, dwell”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“room, cage”), English bower, Swedish bur (“hutch, coop, cage”). Doublet of bower.

noun burons

A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style. According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'

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@misc{buron_2026,
  title = {buron},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buron},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}