borrowed
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏrʹōd, IPA(key): /ˈbɒɹəʊd/
- (General American) enPR: bärʹōd, IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹoʊd/
- (Canada, US) enPR: bôrʹōd, IPA(key): /ˈbɔɹoʊd/
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Verb
[edit]borrowed
- simple past and past participle of borrow
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrowed robes?