A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the...
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Look up Bal or bal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bal or BAL may refer to: Bal (surname), including a list of people with the name Bal (given name)...
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a British writer and director known for her work on films Unclasped, Bal Maiden (2024), and Misnomer (2022). Aela (disambiguation) Aelle, an English masculine...
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(also found in Devon) Bal – a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig') Bal maiden – a woman working at...
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A gook was a piece of protective headgear worn by bal maidens (female manual labourers in the mining industries of Cornwall and Devon). The gook was a...
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August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023. "Stripped & Teased | Credits". Bal-Maiden Films. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-06-21...
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England – Smock Cornwall – Sou'wester hat, fisherman's smock, gansey, bal-maiden clothing, Cornish kilts and tartans London – Pearly kings and queens Northern...
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"Iron Maiden - ciekawostki o zespole". WhatNext.pl (in Polish). 31 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019. "Przyszły gitarzysta Iron Maiden "bał się burzy"...
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The Road to BAL, also known as the BAL Qualifying Tournaments, are the qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). While the main tournament...
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"Maid" In Anglo-Cornish dialect "maid" is commonly used to mean "girl"; Bal maidens were women working at the mines of Cornwall, at smashing ore &c. "A day...
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