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  • noun Plural form of Guernsey.

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Examples

  • The afternoon sun highlights the brown and white flanks of the nearby St Senara Guernseys, named after the church's patron saint, grazing on their pastures above the blue sea.

    Country diary: Zennor, Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

  • Eldridge supplies the Desert Rats 7th Armoured Division with their oatmeal-colored Guernseys, the Tank regiment (black), the Intelligence Corps (V-necked army green) and the Mercian.

    Coolhunter: The Guernsey Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • Guernseys, New York Rosa Parks posed on a bus shortly after refusing to move for a white rider.

    Rosa Parks, Waiting to be Found Pia Catton 2011

  • Sweaters are Guernseys (£56.30, from guernseyjumpers.gg ), cashmere V-necks (see Marks & Spencer's Autograph, £69; John Lewis, £79; or John Smedley, £255), Aran (Burberry Prorsum, £550) or fishermen's (YMC, £175).

    Deconstructing the Unreconstructed Male Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • Among them are the Ayrshires, roan-colored and high-strung; Brown Swiss, large, pretty cows with a reputation for low intelligence; Guernseys, hardy and docile; and Jerseys, small, relatively low-volume producers with milk rich in fat and solids.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • "Looking like an antelope in a herd of Guernseys . . ."

    Eco chamber: Is your favorite crime series a closed text? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  •  By the time the National Guard screeched into action and located him, Billy had munched his way through some twenty or thirty of the finest Guernseys in the country.

    Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

  • I can't think of the exact quote, but he calls her something like a gazelle I'm sure that's wrong in a herd of Guernseys, which in the context of the novel was pretty cute.

    Eco chamber: Is your favorite crime series a closed text? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • In six months it was open to the general public, bringing a prosperity to Finleydale that the Guernseys and even the autoworkers had never been able to do.

    Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

  • Teresa #647 It was a mixed farm; we had 50 head of Red Poll cattle, which were our financial mainstay plus a couple of Jerseys and Guernseys for milk, goats, sheep, pigs and chickens.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

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