cotswold
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Noun (1)
- sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold HillsType of domestic sheep, Ovis aries
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cots′wold′ (k?ts′w?ld′), noun
Origin: Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.
An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; — so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54