Southdown

American  

[south-doun] / ˈsaʊθˌdaʊn /

noun

1. one of an English breed of sheep, yielding mutton of high quality.

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Southdown British  

/ ˈsaʊθˌdaʊn /

noun

1. an English breed of sheep with short wool and a greyish-brown face and legs

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Etymology

Origin of Southdown

1780–90; named after South Downs, where the breed was developed

Example Sentences

Southdown buses, who operate in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, is warning of queues and delays.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2021

Each of the three-bedroom party houses in Southdown Mews, she says, will have between 12 and 15 people staying there during the let.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2016

Catholic treatment centers, like Southdown in Aurora, Ontario, have a spiritual component to their residential life, but their psychologists and psychiatrists rely on the same psychodynamic treatments used by secular therapists like Dr. Lothstein.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2010

Describing the treatment at Southdown, which she led from 1993 to 2003, Donna Markham, a psychologist and Dominican nun, said, “It’s excellent psychotherapy, but it’s not religiously based.”

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2010

Southdown, sowth′down, adj. pertaining to the South Downs in Hampshire, the famous breed of sheep so named, or their mutton.—n. this breed of sheep, a sheep of the same, or its mutton.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various