The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roxburgh \Rox"burgh\ (?; Scot. ?), n. [From the third duke of Roxburgh (Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books so bound.] A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Wikipedia
Roxburgh , also known as Rosbroch, is a civil parish and now-destroyed royal burgh, in its eponymous historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. In the Middle Ages it had at least as much importance as Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, or Berwick-upon-Tweed, for a time acting as de facto capital (as royal residence of David I).
Roxburgh is an ancient town and county in Scotland.
Roxburgh may also refer to:
Roxburgh ( Gaelic, Rosbrog) is a village off the A699, by the River Teviot, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
It should not be confused with the historic royal burgh of Roxburgh, the site of which lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the present village.
Other places nearby include Ednam, Heiton, Maxton, Morebattle, Smailholm, Sprouston and Stichill.
The Borders Abbeys Way passes through the village.
Roxburgh is a surname. It is an ancient Scottish surname, locational in origin, from the place called Roxburgh near Kelso in what is now the Borders county of Scotland, formerly Roxburghshire.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alec Roxburgh (1910–1985), Scottish footballer
- Andy Roxburgh (born 1943), Scottish footballer and manager
- Doug Roxburgh (born 1951), Canadian golfer
- Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937), English composer
- J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), British schoolmaster and author
- James William Roxburgh (1921–2007), Anglican Bishop of Barking
- Jim Roxburgh (1858-1934), baseball player
- John Roxburgh (disambiguation)
- Richard Roxburgh (born 1962), Australian actor
- William Roxburgh (1751–1815), Scottish surgeon and botanist, abbreviated as "Roxb."
Usage examples of "roxburgh".
Somewhere within the vitals of that keep, Tamlain Conmor, the Most Noble the Duke of Roxburgh, Marquess of Carterhaugh, Earl of Miles Cross, Baron Oakington-Hawbridge, and Lord High Field-Marshal of the Dainnanto name only his principal titlesstrode into the richly furnished suite he always occupied when at Court, calling for his junior valet and his squire.
A page boy in the livery of Roxburgh, gold and gray, stood stiffly at her shoulder.
Ethlinn and Maeve had said that Roxburgh could be trusted, but it would be better to see the King-Emperor himself.
The name of Conmor, Duke of Roxburgh, is also famous in far-flung places, of course.
Conmor of Roxburgh is spoken of, perhaps you are aware that he has little time for secret messages, being more concerned with the safety of the Empire.
And so she had told her story to Roxburgh not as it was, but as she wished it to be heard.
I always air this geste when Roxburgh wishes to dispute my tenet that the brain is mightier than the thew.
As Roxburgh and I now stand at the left and right shoulders of the King-Emperor, so, in macabre travesty, Huon the Hunter and the Each Uisge, the most malign of all waterhorses, once long ago flanked their leader.
For further information she went to Alys-Jannetta of Roxburgh, the wife of the Dainnan Chieftain.
The Duchess of Roxburgh toyed with a tasseled fan, occasionally glancing at the velvet-draped windows that looked out over the Winter Garden, across the city to the ocean.
At the far-off tables that stood nearest the High Table, the only identifiable faces belonged to the comely Lady Rosamonde, eldest daughter of the Duke of Roxburgh, the balding Dowager Marchioness of Netherby-on-the-Fens in her incongruous and outrageously expensive wig of real Talith hair, and the young Talith noblewoman Maiwenna, her good looks framed by naturally acquired gold.
Most Noble the Duchess of Roxburgh, Marchioness of Carterhaugh, Countess of Miles Cross, Baroness Oakington-Hawbridge, also to the Lady Rohain of the Sorrows, Mistress of Arcune, I, Your Most Humble Servant Thomas, Duke of Ercildoune, send thee Greetings.
She was dimly aware that others were present in the hallgreat lords, Roxburgh among them, all standing, facing Thorn.
Eldaraigne, I was riding out with Roxburgh under the early stars, not far from where our troops were bivouacked.
Then, with her attendants and Maiwenna the Talith gentlewoman and young Rosamonde of Roxburgh, she would ride out in a coach from the Royal Mews, through countryside green-hazed with the buds of an early Spring.