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mavrone     (Hiberno-English) Alas![1] This interjection is an Anglicisation of the Irish expression mo bhrón (my sorrow, my grief). Gifford's annotation is incorrect.

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  1. ↑ Patrick S. Dinneen, Irish-English Dictionary 61-62.
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