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Suffolk

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Suf·folk 1  (sfk)
1. A historical region of eastern England bordering on the North Sea. Settled in prehistoric times, it was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia. Its name means the "southern people," as opposed to the "northern people" of Norfolk.
2. also (-ôk) An independent city of southeast Virginia southeast of Portsmouth, it was burned by the British in 1779 and occupied by Union forces in 1862. Population: 81,100.
Suf·folk 2  (sfk)
n.
1. Any of an English breed of hornless sheep with black face and black legs, raised for high-quality mutton.
2. Any of a breed of English draft horses of a chestnut color, having short legs and a thickset heavy body.
[After Suffolk, a county of eastern England.]
Suffolk1
n
(Placename) a county of SE England, on the North Sea: its coast is flat and marshy, indented by broad tidal estuaries. Administrative centre: Ipswich. Pop.: 668 548 (2001). Area: 3800 sq. km (1467 sq. miles)
Suffolk2
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a black-faced breed of sheep


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In this house the despicable little miser, who lived rent free in London, now lives, rent free again, on the coast of Suffolk.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
The Custom House stood at a little distance down King Street, nearly where the Suffolk Bank now stands, and a sentinel was continually pacing before its front.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Do you happen to have heard, ma'am, that I rushed into a prize-ring on the fourth of May last, attended by only sixty special constables; and, at the hazard of falling a sacrifice to the angry passions of an infuriated multitude, prohibited a pugilistic contest between the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam?
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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