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COTSWOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cotswold mean?
• COTSWOLD (noun)
The noun COTSWOLD has 1 sense:
1. sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills
Familiarity information: COTSWOLD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("Cotswold" is a kind of...):
domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)
Context examples
From the Wrekin in the Welsh marches to the Cotswolds in the west or Butser in the south, there was no hill-top from which the peasant might not have seen the bright shimmer of arms, the toss and flutter of plume and of pensil.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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