Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sheep of a breed distinguished by its long wool, originally developed in the Cotswold Hills.
- noun The wool of this sheep.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, a wold where there are sheep-cotes: the name of a range of hills in Gloucestershire, England.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
- noun a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Cotswolds range of hills. - adjective morris dancing A style of traditional Morris dancing originating from the Cotswolds area of England.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills
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Examples
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As a spectacle it ain't pretty but it's a great laugh and when the weather's on song, this picture-postcard, Cotswold village is a most agreeable place to be.
Paul Dodson: Football Mutations Paul Dodson 2011
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Its older buildings are of the pleasant honey-colored Cotswold stone.
Bugles Still Blow on Britain's Sad Shire Sam Leith in London 2011
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The brasserie restaurant, the Swan, is increasingly well-regarded and the ground-floor bar menu includes a limited number of affordable appetising dishes, such as Cotswold Legbar poached eggs on toast and a daily savoury tart with chips and salad (£5-£7), as well snacks like scotch eggs and sausages cooked in rioja (£4-£5).
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In the 1930s, Cheltenham unveiled the iron men: Fred Rimell, Fulke Walwyn and Frenchie Nicholson, who were to thrive as trainers, and a tradition was born of intrepid jockeyship that found its natural stage on this undulating Cotswold ground.
Ruby Walsh displays mastery of Cheltenham with hat-trick of winners 2011
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The quality of Britishness in the festival was not achieved by random manifestations in northern cities and Cotswold hamlets, but in the way that people from the provinces were drawn to a previously disregarded riverside stretch of London by a contrived public and political event that pulled off the trick of appearing to be improvised and liberating.
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All we have left are corporations owned by other corporations, with layers or bureaucracy shielding them from publishing actual ideas. worth reading • from the Guardian - Ian McEwan reveals how he gave Salman Rushdie shelter in a Cotswold cottage just after fatwa was issued. at
restoring science 2009
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Having taken an interest in his case in the past, I had better record that Otis (son of Bryan) Ferry has been freed on bail after, in the words of the Cotswold Journal: after he spent four months in jail while awaiting trial on charges of ‘nobbling’ witnesses set to testify in a case involving the alleged assault of a fox hunt monitor near Stow.
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There were glimpses, too, through gaps in the trees over the boundless pattern of field boundaries across the Severn Plain, to the distant blue barrier of the Cotswold escarpment.
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Scott's winning drawing showed a masonry building Cotswold stone – a far cry from white rendered concrete.
A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011
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It was the dream of putting on their own fully staged Ring cycle that first led Martin and Lizzie Graham to start an opera festival in the grounds of their Cotswold home at Longborough 20 years ago.
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