Citations:bawneen

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 * 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 63:
 * He would take off his neatly pressed worsted trousers, his Winchester College blazer and schoolboy's cap, and don the rough clothes he wore at home in Connemara: the peasant's canvas britches, the bawneen ‘bratt’ or smock.

an item of clothing (not clear whether sweater or sleeved waistcoat)

 * 1915, Gerald O'Donovan, Waiting, page 216:
 * Tom Blake wiped the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his flannel bawneen as he stuck his pike into a bundle of straw, high as himself.
 * 1917, Mary Elizabeth Blundell, Dark Rosaleen: A Story of Ireland Today, page 71:
 * An old man came in meanwhile from the adjoining room, thrusting his arms into the sleeves of his bawneen as he did so.
 * 1935, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte: Tuairisc Oifigiúil:
 * He must always go around with mud on his heels and with a choker round his neck and wearing a bawneen, and I suppose with a pipe stuck in the band of his hat. That is the warped City idea, of the poor farmer.

wool as the material of waistcoats

 * 1983, John Cowan Messenger, Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland, Waveland Pr Inc
 * Sometimes a bawneen waistcoat is substituted for the vest, and in the heat of the summer may be worn directly over the [...]

wool as the material of sweaters

 * 1956, Go: Travel, Holiday Magazine:
 * a pair of jolly Aran Islanders in bawneen sweater and crochet shawl
 * 1966, Stanton Forbes, Terror Touches Me:
 * To go with that, Angela said, she must have an Irish bawneen sweater of heavy white wool all intricately hand knitted.
 * 1970, Paul Potts, To Keep a Promise, London : MacGibbon & Kee:
 * His poetry, and it is real poetry of a very high order, is as well made as a bawneen sweater. The man is dead but the poetry is just starting out on a life of its own as a full-fledged senator of the republic of letters.
 * 1983, Paul Durcan, Jumping the train tracks with Angela:
 * He is a Pioneer and he always wears the Pin;
 * If he's not wearing a suit he always remembers
 * To transplant the pin to his bawneen sweater.
 * 1995, Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Labyrinth, Lilliput PressLtd:
 * The &#39;bawneen&#39; sweaters of unwashed and undyed wool, with narrow panels of various patterns running from hem to shoulder, now synonymous with Aran, were a later development.
 * 2006, Brendan Lynch, Parsons Bookshop: at the heart of Bohemian Dublin, 1949-1989, Liffey Pr (ISBN 9781905785117):
 * Decorated with dried-up &quot;Honesty&quot; flower, which sported unusual purple and silvery disc seed pods, this featured various volumes of his work and a photograph of him in his beret and bawneen sweater, which had been taken in McDaid&#39;s pub.
 * 1986, Ursula Holden, The cloud catchers, Vintage:
 * ... safe in the white top floors, safe with the books and music. I caught him. He put his arm round me. Then we danced close, close pressed, my breasts against his chest, feeling his heart near, beating under his bawneen sweater, beating clear.