Inverness-shire love

Inverness-shire

Definitions

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  • proper noun A former county of Scotland, including Inverness.

Etymologies

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Inverness +‎ shire

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Examples

  • TemperaturesThe mean maximum temperature in February ranged from 10.9C at both St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and Exeter airport, Devon, to 4.9C at Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire.

    The weather in February 2011

  • Detective Inspector Tompson of Inverness-shire Police said that it was still too early to speculate.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • It dealt in the rental of estates for hunting and fishing; and in anticipation of the summer season of 1928, it had prepared the “particulars” for a property called Achnacarry Castle, which was located a dozen or so miles away, in Inverness-shire.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • It dealt in the rental of estates for hunting and fishing; and in anticipation of the summer season of 1928, it had prepared the “particulars” for a property called Achnacarry Castle, which was located a dozen or so miles away, in Inverness-shire.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The name glen plaid was derived from the valley of Glen Urquhart in Inverness-shire, Scotland.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • My particular recipe was sent in by a Miss Mary MacDonald of Inverness-shire Scotland, but it struck me as being the perfect recipe to capture something of the combination of apples, sweetness and spice that I had scented the house with whilst simmering my apple mincemeat.

    Apple Gingerbread with Cinnamon Icing 2006

  • My particular recipe was sent in by a Miss Mary MacDonald of Inverness-shire Scotland, but it struck me as being the perfect recipe to capture something of the combination of apples, sweetness and spice that I had scented the house with whilst simmering my apple mincemeat.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • This was at Glenbogie, in Inverness-shire, on the south-eastern side of Loch Ness, where Sir Thomas Tringle possessed a beautiful mansion, with a deer-forest, and a waterfall of his own, and any amount of moors which the minds of sportsmen could conceive.

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • The Highland tom-toms would have been beating from Sutherland to Caithness, to Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty.

    Death of a Dentist Beaton, M. C. 1997

  • This was at Glenbogie, in Inverness-shire, on the south-eastern side of Loch Ness, where Sir Thomas Tringle possessed a beautiful mansion, with a deer-forest, and a waterfall of his own, and any amount of moors which the minds of sportsmen could conceive.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

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