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dun

In archaeology, a small fortified enclosure. These circular defences have walls up to 5 m/16 ft thick and easily protected doorways. Like Scottish brochs (stone towers), they may incorporate chambers in the thickness of the walls. They are located in western Scotland and may date from the Iron Age.



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My son made a careful examination and sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes; and a man, whom I can implicitly trust, has examined for me a small dun Welch pony with three short parallel stripes on each shoulder.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
This is the Leabhar Na h-Uidhre, or Book of the Dun Cow.
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A light snow was falling as they descended at the door, and in the morning, when Dorothea passed from her dressing-room avenue the blue-green boudoir that we know of, she saw the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a white earth, and spreading white branches against the dun and motionless sky.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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