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West Country

noun

  1. the West Country
    the West Country the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset


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Moreover, it had become the fashion among the Haugians of the west country to speak in a soft, lisping tone.

But those who come to the West Country are not usually such as seek for the noise and glare of the conventional watering-place.

The Spaniards' first taste of the West Country had probably satisfied them, but other death-traps lay to the eastward.

Here in the West Country hundreds of rich acres are held by the monastic orders.

A cheery voice rolling out the chorus of an old west-country ditty.

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