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Devonshire

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Devonshire [ˈdɛvənʃɪə -ʃə]
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(Biographies / Devonshire, 8th Duke of (1833-1908) M, British, POLITICS: politician) 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833- 1908, British politician, also known (1858-91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874-80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
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Noun1.Devonshire - a county in southwestern EnglandDevonshire - a county in southwestern England    
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England - a division of the United Kingdom
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It was the offer of a small house, on very easy terms, belonging to a relation of her own, a gentleman of consequence and property in Devonshire.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
The other day he took hold of my frock (that green one you thought so nice at Homburg) and told me that it reminded him of the texture of the Devonshire turf.
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Her family, one of the wealthiest in Devonshire, cut up rough about it, and we eloped--are eloping rather, for on the day that you and I walked to the landing stage to go aboard this steamer she and her faithful servant, a negress, passed us, driving to the ship Morrow.
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