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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cotswold \Cots"wold`\ (k?ts"w?ld`), n. [Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.
Wikipedia
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in central England that give their name (usually as a singular) to:
- Cotswold (aeroengine), a design for an British aircraft engine by Roy Fedden after the Second World War
- Cotswold Chase, an annual horse race run at Cheltenham
- Cotswold cheese, a variation of Double Gloucester cheese with chives and onions
- Cotswold District, a local government district in Gloucestershire
- Cotswold Games, annual games held in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
- Cotswold Line, a railway line between Oxford and Hereford
- Cotswold Morris, a type of Morris dance
- Cotswold Outdoor, a chain of adventure recreation shops
- Cotswold Rail, a locomotive hire company
- Cotswold sheep, a breed noted for its wool
- Cotswold stone, a type of oolitic limestone
- Cotswold (UK Parliament constituency) within Gloucestershire
- Cotswold Water Park, a series of lakes on the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border
- Cotswold Way, a long-distance footpath from Bath to Chipping Campden
- Severn-Cotswold tomb, a type of megalithic burial
- The Cotswolds, a symphony by Gustav Holst
The Cotswold neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, most likely taking its name from the large shopping center, Cotswold Village Shops, is located at the intersection of Randolph and Sharon Amity Roads. Originally known as Cotswold Mall, it was one of Charlotte's first suburban malls. Cotswold is emerging as one of the more desirable areas for living and shopping with close proximity to Uptown. Many 1950s and 1960s homes are being remodeled and sold. The area is neighbored by Randolph Park, Echo Hills, Grier Heights, Myers Park, Oakhurst, Providence Park, Sherwood Forest, and Wendover/Sedgewood. The neighborhood has many shopping and dining options
Usage examples of "cotswold".
On the Saturday before she was due to go to the clinic, she made an excuse to go into Cheltenham and met West, who was then working as a tyre-fitter at Cotswold Tyres.
Guide Dulan stood at the study window and looked east, toward Cotswold.
These are the Southdown, and the Cotswold, Leicester, or other improved breeds of long-wooled sheep.
But the College floodlighting had not yet been switched off, and the old Cotswold stone buildings surrounding the quadrangles retained their curious air of insubstantiality.
Their modest acres in the Cotswolds had been suitable for little save sheep grazing, but after the decimating Black Death the wool trade had flourished.
Everyone in racing with money to spend brought determination and dreams, and the four-legged babies came in horseboxes from just up the road, from Kent and the Cotswolds, from Devon and Scotland, from across the Irish Sea.
The meet was held in one of those sleepy Cotswold villages, with a village green flanked by golden grey cottages, a lichened church knee-deep in daffodils, and a pub called the Goat in Boots.
Munsey Hall - neo-classical in design, constructed from the local honeyed limestone so characteristic of the Cotswolds - began to rise from the lower pasturelands cleared of sheep.
Or the Cotswolds, to use a terminology three millennia out of phase.
It may seem obvious, but it came as a small shock to me to realize that this wasn't going to be even remotely like an amble through the English Cotswolds or Lake District, where you head off for the day with a haversack containing a packed lunch and a hiking map and at day's end retire from the hills to a convivial inn for a hot bath, a hearty meal, and a soft bed.
The snow-line stretched from the Chilterns to the Mendips, and the Cotswold Hills had not lost their white caps since the brief and brilliant summer of ’.