Somersetshire
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Somersetshire
- (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 […]
- 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
- What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?