dumfriesshire

Dumfries [duhm-frees] EXAMPLES| noun Also called Dum·fries·shire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/. a historic county in S Scotland. a burgh of Dumfries and Galloway in S Scotland: burial place of Robert Burns. Liberaldictionary.com

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Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for dumfriesshire Historical Examples of dumfriesshire

He was the son of a Dumfriesshire baronet, the representative of the House of Redgauntlet.

Robert Burns

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Tom had carried his pigs to a better than any Dumfriesshire market.

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He died at Moffat, Dumfriesshire, on the 26th of November 1836.

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Dumfriesshire, at any rate, may have been settled in this way.

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Walter Scott, another of the founders, was born in Moffat, Dumfriesshire.

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British Dictionary definitions for dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire noun (until 1975) a county in S Scotland, on the Solway Firth, now part of Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries noun a town in S Scotland on the River Nith, administrative centre of Dumfries and Galloway. Pop: 31 146 (2001) Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012