Somersetshire

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English

Etymology

Somerset +‎ shire

Proper noun

Somersetshire

  1. (archaic) The English county of Somerset.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […]
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