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Duns

Town and former burgh in Scottish Borders unitary authority, Scotland, 24 km/15 mi west of Berwick-on-Tweed; population (2001) 2,600. Destroyed in 1545, the town was rebuilt on its present site from 1588, and later became the county capital of former Berwickshire.

In 1639 the Covenanters camped on the hilltop of Duns Law. John Duns Scotus, a Franciscan monk and theologian who taught in Paris, is believed to have been born in Duns about 1265. Criticism of his teachings brought about the derogatory term ‘dunce’.



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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas.
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A rainy night had been followed by a glorious morning, and the heath-covered countryside, with the glowing clumps of flowering gorse, seemed all the more beautiful to eyes which were weary of the duns and drabs and slate grays of London.
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