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Caernarvonshire

American  
[kahr-nahr-vuhn-sheer, -sher] / kɑrˈnɑr vənˌʃɪər, -ʃər /
Or Caernarfonshire

noun

  1. a historic county in Gwynedd, in northwestern Wales.


Caernarvonshire British  
/ kɑːˈnɑːvənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

  1. (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd

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In time his white-thatched, black-caped figure appeared less & less often in London, more & more often on his Surrey and Caernarvonshire estates.

From Time Magazine Archive

In London, arbitrating a knotty pronunciation dispute over the town of Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, His Majesty's Court of Appeal ruled against "Fellee," "Poo-Hellee," and "Poosh-Hellee," finally compromised on "Pwellee."

From Time Magazine Archive

They walked to the extremity of that part of it which was thrown out from the Caernarvonshire shore.

From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love

John Evans, an adventurous young man of Caernarvonshire, who, about the year 1790, went to America, with a view of discovering the Welsh Indians, or descendants of Madog and his followers. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert

William Hughes, D.D., was a native of Caernarvonshire, and was educated partly at Oxford, whence he removed to Christ’s College, Cambridge. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert