Southdown
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Southdown
1780–90; named after South Downs, where the breed was developed
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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
Far and wide as the great breeder of Southdown sheep, became known the name of Jason Goodell, and his flocks and barns grew with acres steadily.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
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