Tewkesbury

[ tooks-ber-ee, -buh-ree, -bree, tyooks- ]

noun

1. a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.

Tewkesbury

/ -brɪ; ˈtjuːksbərɪ /

noun

1. a town in W England, in N Gloucestershire at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon: scene of a decisive battle (1471) of the Wars of the Roses in which the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians; 12th-century abbey. Pop: 9978 (2001)

Example Sentences

He fought with skill and courage at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury.

From The Daily Beast

The ambition of the nobles failed of its object, when "the last of the barons" lay gory in his blood on the field of Tewkesbury.

From Project Gutenberg

Eighteen years after that summer, a solitary traveller was approaching the city of Tewkesbury.

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It is flanked by two lofty square turrets, which have been compared with those on the west front of Tewkesbury.

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Leaving Tewkesbury, we passed to Warwick, where in the evening we had a meeting with many sober people at a widow-woman's house.

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We passed thence to Tewkesbury and so to Worcester, visiting Friends in their meetings as we went.

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