Southdown
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Southdown
1780–90; named after South Downs, where the breed was developed
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I got into a very good set, you know, first chop—Lord Southdown, and the Beauchamps, and that lot; and—well, I suppose we were idle, and that's the truth.”
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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