Crossword clues for kentish
Wikipedia
Kentish may be used as a name:
- Kentish Council is a local government area in Tasmania, Australia
- Kentish Town is an area of north west London, England
Kentish may also be an adjective for things relating to the western part of the English county of Kent or the former Kingdom of Kent:
- Kentish dialect, the dialect of Modern English spoken in Kent
- Kentish dialect (Old English), a dialect of Old English
- Kentish Man or Maid
Usage examples of "kentish".
He had little room to spare between his front and the sea, and a break-through, far less extensive than that which had been effected in March, would give the Germans the coast of the Straits of Dover, enable them to bombard the Kentish shore, hamper the port of London, and perhaps reach it with long-range guns like those with which they had occasionally bombarded Paris since 23 March.
Kentish Britain when the Jutish pirate had but three hundred followers and perhaps a score of horses.
The story rests on the sergeant's authority, and there seems no reason to doubt him, or Flashman - or for that matter, Doyle's poem, which only errs (possibly deliberately) in presenting Moyes as a young Kentish country boy, when in fact he was a fairly disreputable Scot, old enough, it is said, to have been broken from the rank of colour sergeant for insubordination - which seems characteristic.
We were less than an hour's train journey from London but found ourselves amid the Kentish hop gardens, amid a rural peace unbroken.
It was, therefore, quite natural that he should suppose her no whit less poor than Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse or the other neighboring Kentish squires whose impecuniousness was too blatant a fact to be unknown even to a stranger in the land.
The bicycle ride in such heat across Romney Marsh to this grand new villa of his on the Kentish coast left me quite wilted, but Wells's robust hospitality has quickly restored me.