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n. - A county in southwestern England.

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Usage examples (33)
  • She was a patroness of learned men, &c. See title Devonshire in vol. i.
  • "Did you see the hole that the Duchess of Devonshire is making in the Forum?"
  • The Duke of Devonshire is 47 and is, at that tender age, a happy grandfather.
  • Charles, born 1620, killed at Hartland, in Devonshire, in the King's Party in the Civil War.
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