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Dorchester

[ dawr-ches-ter, -chuh-ster ]

noun

  1. a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.


Dorchester

/ ˈdɔːtʃɪstə /

noun

  1. a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001) Latin nameDurnovariaˌdjʊənəʊˈveɪrɪə


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In 2005, Dixon got the opportunity to run Dorchester’s Parkside Christian Academy, where he had been teaching.

According to state officials, counties without a mandate as of this week included Carroll, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester.

There is so much to love about Green Woodlands, a plot of private land between the towns of Lyme and Dorchester, New Hampshire, about two hours north of Boston.

Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.

That day, Jesse Coleman, a 12-year-old black boy, and his older brother and sister were walking back to their home in Dorchester.

We met at the Dorchester Hotel, for what I expected would be a question and answer interview.

“Meet me for breakfast at the Dorchester Hotel next Thursday in London,” he said.

The Boston Police Department misreported an attack on the JFK Library in Dorchester.

On the south-east it was commanded by the hills of another peninsula called Dorchester Neck.

On June 13 the insurgents heard that the British were about to occupy Dorchester heights.

The publisher was Richard Carlile, who was then 'safe in Dorchester gaol.'

He became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Dorchester, whose daughter Emily he married.

This day nothing very remarkable at night their was a regular deserted and Swam over to Dorchester and escaped.

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