Sussex
[suhs-iks]
- a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.
- one of an English breed of red beef cattle.
- one of an English breed of chickens, raised chiefly for marketing as roasters.
- a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy in SE England.
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Examples from the Web for sussex
Contemporary Examples
Davies is a freelancer “so I hide out in my study down in deepest Sussex.”
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror MachineClive Irving
August 25, 2014
But the first time I remember was at Sussex Camp for Underprivileged Jewish Children.
In fact, the Brighton branch is being set up by Anita and Stuart Balkham, a married couple who live in Sussex.
He then drove hell for leather to Uckfield, Sussex, where he had some whiskey with his friend Susan Maxwell-Scott.
Historical Examples
The most noted is the clergy-house at Alfriston, Sussex, which has been carefully preserved.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
His ancestors had long been large landed proprietors in Sussex.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
So we rattled through Surrey and across the border into Sussex.
Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf
If you are down in Sussex and I chance to be there I should be glad to have you play an eighteen with me.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
But in 1540 he wrested it from him, and regranted it to Robert, Earl of Sussex.
Hampstead and MaryleboneGeraldine Edith Mitton
Sussex
- (until 1974) a county of SE England, now divided into the separate counties of East Sussex and West Sussex
- (in Anglo-Saxon England) the kingdom of the South Saxons, which became a shire of the kingdom of Wessex in the early 9th century a.d
- a breed of red beef cattle originally from Sussex
- a heavy and long-established breed of domestic fowl used principally as a table bird
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