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- proper noun An area of
chalk downland , in southern England
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Examples
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This range, which runs from Chichester eastward as far as East Bourn, is about sixty miles in length, and is called the South Downs, properly speaking, only round Lewes.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Ridgeview sparkling wine, produced from grapes grown on the South Downs in East Sussex.
Cheers! English wine challenges champagne with sparkling results 2011
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I put this into South Downs where Blakemore feels that everybody else understands the secret codes for how things work, but he doesn't.
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The economist John Maynard Keynes and his wife Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina, used Tilton House in the South Downs as a peaceful retreat.
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In South Downs, Blakemore's mum urges her son to aspire to become an accountant, since most of Marks & Spencer's board of directors are accountants – and there's nothing more secure than M&S.
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Waitrose says sales of 18 English sparkling wines have risen by almost a third compared with last Christmas, and Ridgeview, a wine maker in the South Downs, reports trebled sales in the last two years.
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The imposing Iron Age fortress of Cissbury Ring was constructed some 2,300 years ago on top of a 600ft-high hill of the South Downs.
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Such is her lesson, and South Downs at these moments envisages education not as a slightly different tool for achieving adult security than the one Hare's mother imagined it as.
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English champagne from grapes grown on the South Downs in East Sussex.
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It's about a lonely adolescent called Blakemore and meditates on education, faith and teen friendship in the distant days before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.Hare denies South Downs is entirely autobiographical and yet Blakemore's absentee father is a sailor, just as Hare's was, and his mother sees education as a tool for creating a secure adult life.
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