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  • noun Plural form of South Briton.

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  • She was so little acquainted with the geography of the island, that she imagined we could not go to Scotland but by sea; and, after we had passed through the town of Berwick, when he told her we were upon Scottish ground, she could hardly believe the assertion — If the truth must be told, the South Britons in general are woefully ignorant in this particular.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • The various parts of this country were in Caesar’s day, and very long after, more distinct from each other for all purposes of communication and intercourse than we are now from Spain or from Switzerland; and the foreign influences which affected the South Britons made no mark on those petty states which lay at a distance, and whose diet was governed by purely local conditions.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

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