Definitions
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- proper noun UK A person from
Shropshire - proper noun UK A person from
Shrewsbury - adjective UK of or from Shropshire
- adjective UK of or from Shrewsbury
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- I have had many a guinea from him who had so few), he insisted upon my smoking in his room at the "Salopian," and the consequence was, that I became so violently ill as to be reported intoxicated upon my return to Slaughter-House School, where I was a boarder, and I was whipped the next morning for my peccadillo.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Desperate Dan-style dishfuls of good pub grub (rib-eye steak, sinful onion rings, sausages on heaps of mash) with real beer from Herefordshire's Wye Valley, and Shropshire's Three Tuns and Salopian breweries.
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Kit Salopian, here are some responses to your post:
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Kit Salopian: How does Israel "oppress its neighbours"?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Kit Salopian: If "moderate and secular elements of the Muslim community will have difficulty in selling the notion of a Jewish homeland to their brethren" then a little history lesson might be in order.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Kit Salopian: If there was less antisemitism in the world, Jews would be less inclined to emigrate to Israel and stay in the diaspora. one of the reasons for immigration to Israel is antisemitic attacks by Moslems, particularly in France which has a large Moslem population.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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A facetious Salopian prophet ventured publicly to predict that "we shall hear next of a railway to Llansilin (a remote village among the border hills) or the moon."
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The female portion of such assemblages, for the most part, consists of poor Salopian strawberry-carriers, many of whom have walked already at least four miles, with a troublesome burden, and for a miserable pittance -- egg-women, with sundry still-born chickens, goslings, and turkey-pouts -- and passing milk-maidens, peripatetic under the yoke of their double pail.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various
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At last we got to the Salopian Coffee-house in Parliament Street.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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The successive landlords of the Salopian came to regard the engineer as a fixture, and even bought and sold him from time to time with the goodwill of the business.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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