Rutlandshire

[ ruht-luhnd-sheer, -sher ]

noun

1. a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.

Example Sentences

Truly a most small patch of Territory in comparison; not bigger than an English Rutlandshire, to say nothing of soil and climate!

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This warlike prelate was in Rutlandshire when the news of the revolt came.

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It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also.

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Your Uncle Hubert once lost four thousand pounds over the Rutlandshire.

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One glimpse of it we get among the children of a squires family in Rutlandshire in the summer of 1661.

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