Definition of "bernouse" []

• Alternative form of burnoose. (noun)

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• "They had guns slung behind their backs, coloured handkerchiefs on their heads, and they wore the striped bernouse."
• "From the table arose Séverac Bablon, wearing a novel garment strangely like a bernouse."
• "Kavanagh, making for a point where he last saw the end of a bernouse vanishing, wandered further than the others, perhaps, and came suddenly on a hole in the side of the rock."