Cornishman
noun
a native or inhabitant of Cornwall.
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cornishmannouna man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
Cornishman
American
[kawr-nish-muhn]
/ ˈkɔr nɪʃ mən /
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Cornishmen
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cornishman
British
/ ˈkɔːnɪʃmən /
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Origin of Cornishman
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The Cornishman later played for Crystal Palace, Leeds and Everton, making 666 league appearances before he retired in 2006.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Looking back to the original Cornishman article that announced Zanzi’s death, I noticed the reporter had written that the “deadly palm oil” was identified by a national agency, Public Health England.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2017
Before then, the charismatic Cornishman had produced a series of scintillating landscape paintings of his home county, such as .
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
As the Cornishman gazes around his publishers' modern offices in Hammersmith, you wonder whether the bright young things at their keyboards fully appreciate the punishment their latest author has absorbed.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2010
I was in the club when he called, and I found him a pleasant, good-natured Cornishman, with very little that was strange or romantic in any way about him.
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen
His involvement led to hundreds of Cornishmen going back and forth between Cornwall and Hidalgo in the coming decades.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
After attending the Paris Games, the Cornishmen are potentially eyeing a return flight to LAX in three years, pending the approval of their better halves, of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
"The only thing it was missing was 5,000 Cornishmen shouting their heads off," Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2021
When it comes to legendary living Cornishmen, even Padstow's Rick Stein knows his place.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2013
There were war-chariots in Kent and in Aberdeenshire, and so far war-chariots were part of the British armoury; but what authority allows us to attribute to the old Cornishmen and Devonians?
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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