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Shropshire|ˈʃrɒpʃə(r)|
The name (in OE. Scrobscír, Scrobbesbyriᵹscír) of a west-midland county of England, used as the distinguishing epithet of things coming from or associated with the county, as Shropshire cheese, Shropshire damson, Shropshire pie.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 147 b, In England, the best Cheese is the Chesshyre, and the Shropshyre, then the Banbury Cheese. 1747H. Glasse Cookery 73 A Shropshire Pye. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 298/2 (Damson) Much the finest variety..is that called the Shropshire damson.
b. (a) An old breed of horned sheep peculiar to Shropshire; (b) a modern breed of black-faced hornless sheep obtained by crossing with the Southdown. Also, an old breed of long-horn cattle, and of swine.
1768A. Young Tour Southern Counties (1769) 139 That fine breed of hogs which at Barnet market are called the Shropshires. 1803J. Plymley Agric. Shropsh. 241 The old Shropshire ox was remarkable for a large dewlap. Ibid. 260 The old Shropshire sheep..have black or mottled faces and legs. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/2 Varieties of the short or middle-woolled breeds of sheep, and among them were the old Shropshires. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 12 For quality of mutton, the Shropshire, by universal opinion, comes next to the Southdown. |