thorpe

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thorpe (plural thorpes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of thorp.
    • 1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., [], →OCLC, stanza I, page 193:
      A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; []

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