Cheshire

[ chesh-er, -eer ]

/ ˈtʃɛʃ ər, -ɪər /

noun

Formerly Chester. a county in NW England. 899 sq. mi. (2328 sq. km).

a town in central Connecticut.

Also called Cheshire cheese, Chester. a hard cheese, yellowish, orange, or white in color, made of cow's milk and similar to cheddar.

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Examples from the Web for cheshire

Cheshire County Jail in Keene, N.H., looks more like a small college campus or a tech start-up than a house of detention.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain|Sarah Shourd|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Phone services at Cheshire are also outsourced to private companies.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain|Sarah Shourd|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cheshire is supposed to be a “short-term” facility, with 60 percent of its prisoners awaiting trial.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain|Sarah Shourd|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But at Cheshire, prisoners rarely, if ever, leave their pod.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain|Sarah Shourd|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Cheshire is less interested in the literal, chromosomal answer than the figurative one.
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A small boat in which two men were sailing capsized about 200 yards out from the Leasowe Embankment, Cheshire.
The Better Germany in War Time|Harold Picton
And unlike the Cheshire cat, he had not even left a smile behind him—had not even left Athelstan King behind him.
Caves of Terror|Talbot Mundy
This epidemic of 1702 in Lancashire and Cheshire was recorded as something unusual.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
The Cheshire guns came back as there was ample without them.
New Zealanders at Gallipoli|Major Fred Waite
Will Craine, who trained ye Cheshire hounds, came in twelfth on Rib.
Old Country Inns of England|Henry P. Maskell

British Dictionary definitions for cheshire (1 of 2)

Cheshire¹

/ (ˈtʃɛʃə, ˈtʃɛʃɪə) /

noun

a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)Abbreviation: Ches

British Dictionary definitions for cheshire (2 of 2)

Cheshire²

/ (ˈtʃɛʃə) /

noun

Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard . 1917–92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness Ryder

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