| 单词 | home counties |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHome Counties Home Counties n. the counties surrounding London; also occasionally in singular.The list of counties encompassed by the term has varied over time; however it usually includes Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and (formerly) Middlesex. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England wealdOE Oxon.c1439 the Stannaries1455 Midland1555 Home Counties1695 Islandshire1705 lakes1774 file1775 potteries1795 the Shires1796 Tyneside1824 lakeland1829 Lake District1835 lake country1842 Wessex1868 Shakespeare country1900 Geordieland1901 cherry country1902 1695 C. Davenant Ess. Ways & Means supplying War 77 The Eleven Home Counties, which are thought in Land Taxes to pay more than their proportion, viz. Surry with Southwark, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire. 1785 M. Madan Thoughts on Executive Justice 87 Such an administration of the laws has been long creeping in upon us, as the length of the gaol-calendars, more especially in the home counties, too plainly testify. 1898 Middlesex & Herts. Notes & Queries 4 153 The publication,..will..relate not only to London, Middlesex and Hertfordshire, but also to Essex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent; that is, to the Home Counties. 1966 Listener 11 Aug. 218/1 The chances are..small that a writer setting his play in outer suburbia or inner Home County will make of it more than a painful banality. 1972 J. Blackburn For Fear of Little Men ii. 29 Her accent clashed dramatically with the jargon of Home Counties suburbia. 2002 ‘H. Hill’ Flight from Deathrow xxviii. 165 The buses would trundle in from the Home Counties night after night, filled with menopausal mums and the Barbour-clad recently retired. < as lemmas |
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