Balmoral

Meaning

1. A suburban area in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2. A castle and associated estate in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, that is a private residence of the British sovereign (OS grid ref NO2595).
3. A parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
4. A figured woollen petticoat.
5. A community in Bois-Joli village, Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
6. An Oxford shoe.
7. A settlement in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia.
8. A place in Canada:
9. Other places elsewhere in the world:
10. A Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume but no brim; a blue bonnet.
11. A heavy walking shoe.
12. A place in the United States:
13. A community in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba.
14. A suburb of Galashiels, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4836).
15. A community in Haldimand County, Ontario.

Etymology / origin

Castle name first appears in writing as Bouchmorale in 1451. Formed from a combination of Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”) and an uncertain second element. The second element may be Pictish, equivalent to Welsh mawr (“large”) + Welsh iâl (“pastureland”).

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