Meaning & use
Borning
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Relating to the process of being born or coming into existence; used especially in the historical term "borning room."
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The 18th-century farmhouse still has its original borning room off the kitchen.
The old midwife's borning cry marked the start of a new life in the household.
A note on using this word
A "borning room" was a small first-floor room in early American homes, kept warm near the kitchen hearth, used for childbirth and nursing the sick.
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