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- noun Plural form of
cantref .
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Examples
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His clerks accepted the expected word, and vanished with commendable calm to prepare the sealed writs the couriers would bear to the chieftains of two cantrefs before the night was over.
His Disposition 2010
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"Especially," said Cadfael, "when you already know he's the best hand with cattle in the four cantrefs."
A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977
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( 'Pwyll Prince of Dyfed'), in my Middle Welsh class in grad school, and the first line ( "Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet a oed yn arglwyd ar seith cantref Dyuet" [PPD was the lord of the seven cantrefs of Dyfed]) is embedded almost as deep in my brain as "asid raja Nalo nama" ( 'there was a king named Nala,' the opening of the Nala and Damayanti story from the
languagehat.com 2008
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