bote
- noun
- Archaic
- We danced the bote under Mr. de Beer's watchful eyes, and she said over the music, "I like talking to you because you have so much sense."
Examples
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In particular, Duchamp addresses the museum in his botes-en-valises works, which he created between 1935 and 1941.
Academic text (2014) -
Now, that is the roughest of BOTE calculations, given different resource mixes, different electricity shares in total energy use, etc.
Blog text (5) -
"How to draw a bote" has come up a few times, with that spelling.
Blog text (7) -
Mr. de Beer's favorite dance was the bote, which he pronounced in his Dutch way, boatay.
Fiction book (1998) -
I had the radio on and danced the bote as if I had a partner, with my left hand out and my right arm encircling her waist.
Fiction book (1998) -
Many landowners offer a right to bote to help their neighbors gather firewood.
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In ancient times, the village law included the right to receive bote for repairing communal structures.
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The judge awarded bote to the farmers who lost access to the woodland for gathering resources.
Synonyms
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9.9
A right to use and benefit from someone else's property without harming it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bote comes from Old English bót, which meant 'remedy' or 'payment'. In law it named a small right or 'compensation'—for example the right to take wood for fuel or to make repairs—so the origin explains why bote means a legal right to collect wood or a payment.