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Records the development of Wessex town
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dorchester
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 109 Housing Units (2000): 47 Land area (2000): 1.000901 sq. miles (2.592322 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.000901 sq. miles (2.592322 sq. km) FIPS code: 20932 Located within: Texas ...
Wikipedia
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Dorchester was a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province of Quebec , Canada . It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Dorcanceaster , earlier Dornwaraceaster , from Latin Durnovaria , from Romano-British *duro- "walled town."
Usage examples of dorchester.
Dorchester was yielded without resistance to the corps under Lee, while Col. Wade Hampton, pressing to the very lines of Charleston, captured the guard and patrol at the Quarter House, and spread terror through the city.
Dorchester Bay was a pocket of water below South Boston, ringed with sewer overflows - CSOs - but not much industry.
It was already dark when Celia, Andrew, Martin and Yvonne walked the short distance from the Dorchester to Fortyseven Park.
Again at Shasa's insistence, she had taken the suite at the Dorchester overlooking the park that the family always used, with a single room at the back for Miriam and the baby for which she requested a separate bill and paid in cash out of her own pocket so that Shasa would have no record of it on her bank statement.
This was not surprising, for I had not returned to the Dorchester, but had my luggage sent to Blue Bird House and flown out on the early morning flight tor Africa.
At eleven o'clock a post-chaise from Dorchester is coming to take me to Torbay by way of a village whose name escapes me.
When you have done all this, go to the house in Dorchester and bring me the family Bible, if there is one there.
The storm dribbled and piddled off toward Dorchester, and the Wild Hunt faded with it, though the Huntsmen’s howling still flickered around the sky after they were gone.
He had failed to occupy Dorchester Heights, an unmistakably strategic position commanding the town, and when, after months of waiting, the Americans put guns on them, he had evacuated Boston, leaving behind a valuable stockpile of military stores.
And I'm glad that it was the Dorchester in London or the Bristol in Vienna, or the Grande Bretagne in Athens rather than a tract home in Orinda, California.