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southdown
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southdown \South"down`\, a. Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.
Southdown sheep (Zo["o]l.), a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.
Southdown \South"down`\, n. A Southdown sheep.
Wikipedia
Southdown may refer to:
- Southdown (sheep), a breed of sheep
- Southdown, Harpenden, a region in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
- Southdown, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
- Southdown Creative, an American film and video production company
- Southdown Motor Services, a former bus company based in Sussex, England
- Southdown Power Station, a power station in Auckland
- Southdown, a cement company acquired by Cemex
Usage examples of "southdown".
These are the Southdown, and the Cotswold, Leicester, or other improved breeds of long-wooled sheep.
Her Ladyship and her sisters lived at Brighton with their mamma, the Countess Southdown, that strong-minded woman so favourably known in the serious world.
Crawley the most delightful and accomplished of men, after Southdown, that fallen angel: and her mamma and sister, who were ladies of the most superior sort, managed everything for her, and regarded her with that amiable pity, of which your really superior woman always has such a share to give away.
Lady Southdown quite agreed in both proposals of her son-in-law, and was for converting Miss Crawley off-hand.
My Lord Southdown, her late husband, an epileptic and simple-minded nobleman, was in the habit of approving of everything which his Matilda did and thought.
Reverend Giles Jowls, the illuminated Cobbler, who dubbed himself Reverend as Napoleon crowned himself Emperor--the household, children, tenantry of my Lady Southdown were expected to go down on their knees with her Ladyship, and say Amen to the prayers of either Doctor.
During these exercises old Southdown, on account of his invalid condition, was allowed to sit in his own room, and have negus and the paper read to him.
Lady Southdown, I think it would be quite unadvisable to commence so early upon serious topics with Miss Crawley.
Miss Briggs, who was enabled to speak a good word for the latter, after the cards of the Southdown family had been presented to Miss Crawley.
Lady Southdown mean by leaving a card upon you, I wonder, Miss Briggs?
He did not tell the Countess of Southdown what opinion his aunt had formed of her Ladyship, who, on the contrary, thought that she had made a most delightful and majestic impression on Miss Crawley.
Pitt, her nephew, and for the Lady Southdown, from Brunswick Square, she requested an immediate celebration of the marriage which had been so long pending between the two families.
Waxy came down to ratify the deeds--Lord Southdown gave away his sister--she was married by a Bishop, and not by the Rev.
Lady Southdown, from her neighbouring house, reigned over the whole family--Pitt, Lady Jane, Miss Crawley, Briggs, Bowls, Firkin, and all.
But she remembered that her brother Southdown had mustachios, and smoked cigars, and submitted to the Baronet with a tolerable grace.