bordermark

English

Alternative forms

  • border-mark
  • border-marke (obsolete)

Etymology

From border +‎ mark.

Noun

bordermark (plural bordermarks)

  1. Something that marks the border between two regions.
    • 1996, Integração de favelas no Rio de Janeiro, page 18:
      The solution of a bicycle-way along the Guanabara bay: more than a leisure facility, a bordermark between the favela and the bay.
    • 2021, A Place in the World: New Local Historiographies in Africa and South Asia, page 149:
      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?
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