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Southdown

American  
[south-doun] / ˈsaʊθˌdaʊn /

noun

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


Southdown British  
/ ˈsaʊθˌdaʊn /

noun

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

"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

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

Southdown or Highland Scot, Fleming or Huguenot, Weaving our tapestries we shall serve our King!

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

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