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- noun Plural form of
cowshed .
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Examples
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Brownsham, which consists of little more than a couple of cowsheds and a chicken coop, doesn't have a pub, so you'll need to drive down the road to Hartland for a pint and something to eat after your walk.
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But there were no back yards, or, rather, they were covered with one-storey hovels, cowsheds, in which people lived.
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The smells are familiar, nothing repellent, but not enticing either, like the female smells of the cowsheds.
Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009
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Wilson Agriculture in Coleraine has been given a government grant to support its production of Pasture Mats and Poly Pillows to soothe the afflictions of living in concrete-floored cowsheds.
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Houses: one-story country houses, cowsheds, stables, warm and cozy inns with excellent wholesome home cooking.
Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008
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The farmhouse had long felt a sterile placestrange, considering it was the hub of a cycle of life that revolved with its fields and cowsheds and stables.
Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008
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As a life-long afficionado of names, I can tell you off the top of my head that Alinta is an Aboriginal word for flame; that Byron means born by the cowsheds; and that J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy because he wanted something ‘friendly’ to call his female lead.
A Rose By Any Other Name « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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As a life-long afficionado of names, I can tell you off the top of my head that Alinta is an Aboriginal word for flame; that Byron means born by the cowsheds; and that J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy because he wanted something ‘friendly’ to call his female lead.
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The farmhouse had long felt a sterile placestrange, considering it was the hub of a cycle of life that revolved with its fields and cowsheds and stables.
Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008
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Coming as it did from cowsheds in London and from the surrounding countryside; it “proved," in the eyes of Charles Dickens Jr, "often the source of, or rather, perhaps, the means of spreading, serious epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlatina.”
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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