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▪ I. Dorset|ˈdɔːsɪt|
The name of a county in the south-west of England, used ellipt. or attrib. in designation of things produced in or originally peculiar to the county.
1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 164 Golden-dorset. Ibid., The Golden Dacket Dauset. 1824J. Wight Mornings at Bow St. 4 There was toast and prime Dorset, and muffins and crumpets. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz 2nd Ser. 24 Tubs of weekly Dorset, and cloudy rolls of ‘best fresh’. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxvi. 360 The English breed..the Dorset—a close-coated, white-faced horned breed, which produces two crops of lambs within the year. 1897H. G. Wells Plattner Story 205 He wanted us to eat Dorset butter. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 259/1 Dorset Down, one of the Down breed sheep with fine close wool which is used largely for Cheviot quality woollens and for hosiery yarns. 1955[see blue-vinn(e)y s.v. blue a. 13]. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Eng. Pott. & Porc. 75/1 Dorset clay, Poole Clay..is generally known in Staffordshire as blue clay. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 63 Mr. K. Hebditch's Dorset Down flock. 1970Guardian 28 Feb. 11/1 The Dorset horn sheep is the only breed which can produce more than one set of lambs a year.
▪ II. Dorset, n.2|ˈdɔːsɪt|
The name of Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Canada, used attrib. and ellipt. to designate a prehistoric culture which flourished in the American Arctic during the first millennium a.d., and was displaced by the Thule culture.
[1925D. Jenness in Geogr. Rev. XV. 437 The Cape Dorset culture, while more primitive in some respects than the Thule, is certainly not the culture of the first Eskimos who settled on the coast.] 1933― Amer. Aborigines 390 The much deeper patination and greater wear on the Dorset culture specimens..seemed to indicate that..they were of greater antiquity than the Thule remains. 1940Amer. Antiquity V. 323 The points with one line hole above the other are unlike the two-holed ones from ‘Dorset’ culture sites. 1960L. A. Brennan No Stone Unturned xiv. 263 The first suppositions were of a direct contact with a land-hunting culture called the Dorset, of the eastern Arctic area, supplying out of hand to southern Indian cultural traits such as bone, combs, [etc.]. 1985Sci. Amer. Nov. 164/3 Lake Harbour Pre-Dorset people, and to a lesser extent descendant Dorset people, were inclined to focus on small seals and caribou. |