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boroughenglishes

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bor⋅ough-Eng⋅lish

  [bur-oh-ing-glish or, often, -lish, buhr-]
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–noun
(formerly, in some parts of England) a custom by which the youngest son inherited the entire estate upon the death of his father.
Origin:
1300–50; ME
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