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- proper noun Common variation of the spelling of the county
Down inIreland ; also Downshire
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Examples
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"It's a balancing act for the consumer and the bank," said BMO Chief Executive William Downe in an interview.
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Soon after she passed school age, her father, who had been teaching art at Downe House, was offered a job at Marlborough College, over the county border in Wiltshire.
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Another Sallies resident, Virginia “Ginny” Fraser, had known Kate even longer, since the time they were both students at Downe House.
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The daughter of a high-ranking English diplomat, Sayle had attended Downe House, the posh boarding school Kate had briefly attended.
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At the same time newspapers were trumpeting the arrival of Prince William at Eton in September 1995, Kate enrolled at Downe House, an exclusive all-girls boarding school that started out in the family home of Charles Darwin but had since taken over the Cloisters in the nearby town of Cold Ash.
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Grissell, the daughter of trainers Gardie and Diana, had a depressing afternoon at Plumpton on Monday when she had to pull up her horse Downe Payment in a handicap hurdle.
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Bank of Montreal Chief Executive Bill Downe says tough recourse laws or not, Canadians tend to pay off their debt.
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Clarence Downe was waiting by his truck when Hawkes showed up.
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Having attended such expensive private boarding schools as Downe House and Marlborough College, she would have been offered the chance of confirmation while still in her teens.
The cost of Kate Middleton's confirmation | Alexander Chancellor
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Her best friend at Downe House, Amanda Cherry, was just nineteen when she embarked on a scandalous affair with her forty-one-year-old married social studies teacher, Ian Goodridge.
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