Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of west-central England west-southwest of Birmingham. Carpets have been manufactured here since 1735.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of carpet, named from the town in England where it was formerly principally manufactured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
town inWorcestershire traditionally associated with thecloth trade, and the manufacture ofcarpets
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Examples
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Dr Taylor in Kidderminster got the Lib Dems to stand down and his voting record confirms very close correlation with the Lib Dems since then.
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Mermaid - the Famous Five didn't exist (did they?) however Thomas the Tank Engine is real and holidays in Kidderminster.
'The Sunni Side Of Tikrit ' Newmania 2007
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Soleis in Attica, among the Greeks, built by Solon, and applied as we use the word Kidderminster for curtains from a town also of that name -- but this is learning you have no taste for!) -- I say, madam, there are many sarcasms in it, and solecisms also.
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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And as to Jonathan, who is but John lengthened out a little, he would see creation whittled into chips before he would even split what may henceforth be called the Kidderminster difference.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Here I am in Norfolk wanting a local adviser and I am calling Kidderminster! "
EDP24 News 2010
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Here I am in Norfolk wanting a local adviser and I am calling Kidderminster! "
EDP24 News 2010
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Tattersall, who was 89 and had lived in Kidderminster since leaving the county in 1960, was a key figure in the Lancashire team that shared the title with Surrey in 1950, when he took 193 wickets at an average of 13.59.
Sport news in brief 2011
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He was released by the club in 1952 and went on to enjoy short spells with Third Lanark and Kidderminster Harriers.
The Knowledge | Which teams have topped the table for the first time on the final day? 2012
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There were the embarrassing FA Cup defeats to non-league Altrincham and Kidderminster and the humiliation of relegation to the third tier of English football in 1989.
Alex McLeish has taken Birmingham to places they never thought likely 2011
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In order to assess support for this peaceful but possibly effective protest, interested readers should write to me at 11 Church Walk, Kidderminster DY11 6XY or taylorr@rtact.freeserve.co.uk.
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