Both Uses of
boon
in
A Game of Thrones
- The crossroads made for odd companions; dyers with black and purple hands shared a bench with rivermen reeking of fish, an ironsmith thick with muscle squeezed in beside a wizened old septon, hard-bitten sellswords and soft plump merchants swapped news like boon companions.
p. 288.2boon = cherished
- My lady, I beg the boon of championing your cause.
p. 422.1 *boon = favor
Definitions:
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(1)
(boon) something that is of great benefit
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, in archaic literature, a boon may refer to a favor or request. It is also a rare spelling of a last name.