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Kirkcudbrightshire

British  
/ kɜːˈkuːbrɪˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

  1. a former county of SW Scotland, part of Dumfries and Galloway since 1975

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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DUMFRIESSHIRE, a border county of Scotland, bounded S. by the Solway Firth, S.E. by Cumberland, E. by Roxburghshire, N. by the shires of Lanark, Peebles and Selkirk, and W. by Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

Next turns up in Scotland, assistant to a doctor there; name Mair, locality Kirkcudbrightshire.

From Elster's Folly by Mrs. Henry Wood

They entered next the country of Meg Merrilies, and from Kirkcudbrightshire crossed over to Ireland for a few days.

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson

Tom tells me that you called on Mr. Haslam, with a newspaper giving an account of a gentleman in a Fur cap falling over a precipice in Kirkcudbrightshire.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

As a parliamentary burgh Dumfries includes Maxwelltown, on the opposite side of the river, which otherwise belongs to Kirkcudbrightshire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

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