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- noun Plural form of
contree .
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Examples
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Wiv EBEN mor diffrunt contrees rerpe…prepre…reprse..wiv cheezpeeps form EBEN mor diffrunt contrees!
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Now schalle I seye zou sewyngly of contrees and yles, that ben bezonde the contrees that I have spoken of.
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But thei will roten within 8 days: and for that cause men may not carye of the apples to no fer contrees.
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And whan men gon bezonde tho iourneyes, toward Ynde and to the foreyn yles, alle is envyronynge the roundnesse of this erthe and of the see, undre oure contrees on this half.
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And alle be it that theise thinges touchen not to o way, nevertheles thei touchen to that, that I have hight zou, to schewe zou a partie of custumes and maneres, and dyversitees of contrees.
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Aftre gon men, be many cytees and townes, and grete contrees, that it were to longe to telle, unto the cytee of Cornaa, that was wont to be so gret, that the walles abouten holden 25 myle aboute.
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And in somer, be alle the contrees, fallen many tempestes and many hydouse thondres and leytes, and slen meche peple and bestes also, fulle often tyme.
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And men seye in theise contrees, that philosophres som tyme wenten upon theise hilles, and helden to here nose a spounge moysted with watre, for to have eyr; for the eyr above was so drye.
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This bryd men seen often tyme, fleen in tho contrees: and he is not mecheles more than an Egle.
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And therfore men comen from fer contrees to have juggement of doutable causes: and other juggement usen thei non there.
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