broad acresn.
Yorkshire. Cf. acre n. 1b.
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broad acres1907
1907 Minister's Gaz. Fashion Oct. 182/1 ‘There's a trip in fra' Leeds, my lad,’ explained the man from broad acres.
1908 A. N. Cooper (title) Across the Broad Acres.
1928 Sunday Dispatch 8 July 22/3 The youth of the Broad-acres.
Derivatives
broad-acred adj. Of or characteristic of Yorkshire.
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Kentisha1100
Norfolk1407
Northumbrian1602
Somersetian1612
Sussexian1612
Sussexan1614
East Anglian1622
Suffolkian1622
Yorkshire1683
Cumbrian1780
Cornubian1782
broad-acred1898
1898 Windsor Mag. VII. 696/2 Yorkshire has in recent years..played its matches in various parts of the broad-acred shire.
1928 Sunday Express 17 June 12/6 A redfaced..man of the broad-acred type.
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