Lincolnshire
//ˈlɪŋkənˌʃɪə// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A county of eastern England bordered by South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and the North Sea.
"The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in."
Example
More examples""Massachusetts or Lincolnshire?" "Ontario.""
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Lincolneschire, Lincolnschire, from late Old English Lincolnesċīr (first recorded in the 11th century); equivalent to Lincoln + -shire.
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