Avebury
Americannoun
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Baron. Lubbock, Sir John.
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Also Abury a village in Wiltshire, England: site of one of the largest ceremonial megalithic structures in Europe.
noun
Example Sentences
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Boss Morris, pictured here at Avebury Stones in England, is one of the new groups exploring ways to pull apart and reinterpret Morris dancing.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Former MP John Thurso was elected to sit in the upper chamber as a Lib Dem hereditary peer after winning a contest triggered by the death of Lord Avebury.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2016
Lubbock, who became the first Baron Avebury, was himself from a privileged banking family, and educated at Eton.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015
Avebury is the perfect English village – pub to the left, neolithic ley lines to the right, and a handful of genteel tourists making hay in the sun.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2014
Avebury village stands on the road to Swindon, on the borders of Marlborough Downs, and has been built within a great circle which appears to have been approached by an avenue of standing stones.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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