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单词 west isles
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west isles
west isles n. Obsolete (a) the British Isles (rare); (b) the Western Isles of Scotland, esp. the Outer Hebrides.
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west islesc1400
mainland1503
Western Islands1577
Western Isles1577
Zetland1577
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 6 (MED) Ennias þe athel & his highe kynde..patrounes bicome Welneȝe of al þe wele in þe west iles.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. x. 39/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Iles that lie about the north coast of..Scotland..are either occidentals, the west Iles,..or the Shetlands.
1607 Denmylne MSS in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 104 Anent the uest Yllis, thair is ane infeftment of few ferme past to the Erll of Ergyll of the landis of Kintyre.
1701 Syst. Geogr. 48 Argile, Lorn, Kintyre, and Lohaber, with some of the West Isles.
1860 Gentleman's Mag. June 603/1 Nothing more was known with regard to the consumption of wine in the West Isles during the seventeenth century, and it has long ceased to be used among the common people of the Hebrides.
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