Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A county in the north of England.
- noun a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers.
- noun a batter pudding baked under meat.
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- proper noun England's largest
county . Situated in thenorth -east England ; divided into threeridings , (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions. - noun informal Shorter name for
Yorkshire pudding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties
Etymologies
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Examples
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Exton for sending to me an account of a Yorkshire clerk which, by the kindness of the editor of the _Yorkshire Weekly Post_, I am enabled to reproduce.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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One of my reading group friends in Yorkshire is a doctor who works with homeless people; she spends a lot of her work time dealing with drug and alcohol addiction problems.
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# One of the things I'm doing in Yorkshire is finding out how difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us.
February 2006 2006
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Hoare also reflects on Herman Melville and the composition of his great work, and even tracks down a specific whale skeleton in Yorkshire which is explicitly mentioned in Moby-dick.
March Books 19) Leviathan, or, The Whale, by Philip Hoare nwhyte 2010
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Former public school kids who heard my accent and learned I was from a state school in Yorkshire assumed I was "thick" (direct quote), and were "amazed" (another direct quote) to hear that I was one of the top three students on my undergraduate degree course.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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Maybe I lived in Yorkshire in a previous life, I can understand that accent better than Irish ...
The Irish Language- is there a Conservative & Unionist Policy? O'Neill 2009
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Graveyard for Roman gladiators revealed in Yorkshire
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I sometimes thought myself in Yorkshire, sometimes among London cockneys, and sometimes among the best bred people .
The Yankee Myth 2010
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And autumn, in east Yorkshire, is the time of Hull Fair.
Country diary: East Yorkshire Rosemary Roach 2010
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Next week we'll be in Yorkshire, around Janet's Foss and Malham, where the ash grows from the limestone.
Why woodlands are wonderful Colin Tudge 2010
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