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Dorsetshire

[ dawr-sit-sheer, -sher ]

noun

  1. a county in S England. 1,024 sq. mi. (2,650 sq. km).


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Our route next day through the narrow byways of Dorsetshire was a meandering one.

He loved his modest country cottage, and he loved those quiet, homely Dorsetshire folk around him.

He intrusted himself to Colone Windham of Dorsetshire, an affectionate partisan of the royal family.

The Dorsetshire sheep are horned and white-faced, with a long thin carcass, and high small white legs.

An extremely curious inscription appears on a bell at Pucknowle, Dorsetshire, dated 1629.

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