Meanings
plural bordermarks · alternative border-mark · alternative obsolete border-marke
- Something that marks the border between two regions.
The solution of a bicycle-way along the Guanabara bay: more than a leisure facility, a bordermark between the favela and the bay.
1996, Integração de favelas no Rio de Janeiro, page 181 more example
Even in conversations which were conducted in Limbum people frequently used 'history' to explain and refer to something which had happened in the past, e.g. the meaning of bordermarks, the importance of secret societies, etc. How is one going to explain this growing substitution of the English word history for the local nsung?
2021, A Place in the World: New Local Historiographies in Africa and South Asia, page 149
Origin
Cite this entry
bordermark. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bordermark
“bordermark.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bordermark. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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