somersetshire

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English

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The English county of Somerset.

Archaic

"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 […]"
"What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?"

From Somerset + -shire.

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