widdershins
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Today, Winn and Turner live in Brooklyn with their young daughter and a longhaired cat named Colonel Widdershins.
From New York Times
My Loneliness Is Killing won best short film, and Widdershins, voiced by actor Brian Cox, came top in Animation.
From BBC
Withershins, Widdershins, with′-, wid′ėr-shinz, adv.
From Project Gutenberg
I thought I'd call it "Poplar Trees," Or "Widdershins" or "Velvet Bees," Or "Just Beneath a Star."
From Project Gutenberg
To put it in another form, since he must do this Widdershins Walk, was it better for him to know he was doing it, or to do it knowing as little as possible about it?
From Project Gutenberg
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