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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

Edmund Griffith, D.D., was a native of Lleyn in Caernarvonshire, where he was born in 1570. 

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

The heiress and her husband removed from his small patrimonial estate in Merionethshire, to her heritage in Caernarvonshire, and for a time the prophecy lay dormant.

From Doom of the Griffiths by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Over each of these sands the road leads from Merionyth into Caernarvonshire.

From The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Cambrensis, Giraldus

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