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Wigtownshire

British  
/ ˈwɪɡtənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

  1. (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, now part of Dumfries and Galloway

"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

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Caitlin and Jamie Faulkner, from Wigtownshire, are at the end of their honeymoon in Marrakesh.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

A keen rugby player in his youth he played for his school team and Wigtownshire RFC before joining the merchant navy.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2022

A reluctant pupil, he gives up school at 13 "to work at the hay", with ambitions to elevate himself from lowly farmhand to ploughman, a position of some status in the Scottish community of Wigtownshire.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012

The document has been produced by the Wigtownshire Chambers of Commerce.

From BBC • May 3, 2010

As to my dear sister and myself, there were, as I have shown, stronger reasons still to make us love the Wigtownshire moors.

From The Mystery of Cloomber by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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