Cotswold
one of an English breed of large sheep having coarse, long wool.
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How to use Cotswold in a sentence
A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
They buried Patrick Leigh Fermor in the soft green turf of a Cotswold graveyard on a cloudy Thursday afternoon.
The Cotswold Hills are, in any case, above dispute as the cradle-ground of the river, and may be happy with either claimant.
Cotswold wool, and some other inferior wools, do not measure more than nine spirals to the inch.
A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting | John ThomsonThe Cotswold mature young, and the flesh will vary in weight from fifteen to thirty pounds per quarter.
Soil Culture | J. H. Walden
The New Leicester is less hardy than the Cotswold, but heavier, weighing from twenty-four to thirty-six pounds per quarter.
Soil Culture | J. H. WaldenWe were in a bleak stone country, where stone walls take the place of hedges, and where the landscape bears a Cotswold look.
A Leisurely Tour in England | James John Hissey
British Dictionary definitions for Cotswold
/ (ˈkɒtsˌwəʊld, -wəld) /
a breed of sheep with long wool that originated in the Cotswolds. It is believed to be one of the oldest breeds in the world
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