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Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland is an Irish poet. Boland was born in Dublin on 24 September, 1944. Her father, Frederick Boland was a career diplomat and her mother was the post-expressionist painter, Frances Kelly. She was educated in London and New York as well as in her native Dublin; graduating from Trinity Col..
Eaves
An eave is the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building. Some buildings, such as craftsman bungalows, have very wide eaves with decorative brackets. The word eave can also refer to the part of a sloping roof that overhangs the wall, the part of a roof which projects ..
Eavesdrip
The eavesdrop or eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves. By an ancient Anglo-Saxon law, a landowner was forbidden to erect any building at less than 2 feet from the boundary of his land, and was thus prevented from injuring h..
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping is the intercepting of conversations by unintended recipients. One who participates in eavesdropping (i.e. someone who secretly listens in on the conversations of others) is called an eavesdropper. The origin of the term comes from situations in which people would literally hide out in..

 

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