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Search phrase: border

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Henry VI Part 3	3H6 IV.vii.80	Above the border of this horizon,	Aboue the Border of this Horizon,

Poems

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Glossary

11 result(s).

border	keep within bounds, contain, confine
bordering	on the border
brim	edge, border, margin
frontier	border fortress, frontier town
Limbo	domain on the border of hell believed to contain the souls of unbaptised infants and of just people born before Christ
list	cloth edging, border material
march	border region, frontier
margent	margin, edge, border
purlieu	edge, fringe, border [of forest land]
shore	limit, border, bound
valance	drapery making up the border of a bed canopy

Thesaurus

14 result(s).

border	brim
border	margent
border	shore
border	purlieu
border	march
border	skirt
border fortress	frontier
border material	list
border, on the	bordering
drapery making up the border of a bed canopy	valance
fortress, border	frontier
hell, border of	Limbo
material, border	list
region, border	march

Themes and Topics

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World [outside Britain], places and peoples	... limbo aw v iii 260 domain on the border of hell containing the souls of unbaptis...
Latin	... limbo (n m ) h8 v iv 63 limbus border region [= limbo] loquitur (v ) lll...

Words Families

4 result(s).

Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
BORDER	BASIC	border n, border v, bordering adj
BORDER	PEOPLE	borderer n

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