Cornwall

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Corn·wall

(kôrn′wôl′)

A region of extreme southwest England on a peninsula bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and English Channel. Its tin and copper mines were known to ancient Greek traders.

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Cornwall

(ˈkɔːnˌwɔːl; -wəl)

(Placename) a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)

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Corn•wall

(ˈkɔrn wɔl; esp. Brit. -wəl)

n.

1. a county in SW England. 475,200; 1369 sq. mi. (3545 sq. km).

2. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Ottawa, on the St. Lawrence. 51,000.

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Noun

Cornwall - a hilly county in southwestern England

England - a division of the United Kingdom

Cornishman - a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall

Cornishwoman - a woman who is a native or resident of Cornwall

Translations

Cornouailles

Cornwall

[ˈkɔːnwəl] N → Cornualles m

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Cornwall

[ˈkɔː^rnwɔːl] n → Cornouailles f
in Cornwall → en Cornouailles

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Cornwall

n → Cornwall nt

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Cornwall

[ˈkɔːnw/əl] n → Cornovaglia

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Later still, when the Saxons came, the Britons were driven by degrees into the mountains of Wales and the wilds of Cornwall, while others fled again across the sea to Brittany.

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Put everything in hand, and be ready to come down to Cornwall with me on Monday."

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He heard Fanshaw add that his country was full of such quaint fables and idioms; it was the very home of romance; he even pitted this part of Cornwall against Devonshire, as a claimant to the laurels of Elizabethan seamanship.

Now you shall see whether I exaggerate about the mariners of Cornwall. This place belongs to Old Pendragon, whom we call the Admiral; though he retired before getting the rank.

"Always some little thing to be done," he said with idiotic cheerfulness; "as George Herbert says: `Who sweeps an Admiral's garden in Cornwall as for Thy laws makes that and the action fine.' And now," he added, suddenly slinging the broom away, "Let's go and water the flowers."

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You're not of the Clennams of Cornwall, Mr Clennam?'

'Supposing I had been of the Clennams of Cornwall?'

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I am spending my autumn holiday in the far West of Cornwall. However, if I had been at home, it would have made no difference.

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KING ARTHUR..............................................EMPEROR LUCIUS KING LOT OF LOTHIAN.........................................KING LOGRIS KING OF NORTHGALIS.................KING MERPHALT OF IRELAND KING MARSIL..............................................KING MORGANORE KING OF LITTLE BRITAIN................KING MARK OF CORNWALL KING LABOR........................................KING NENTRES OF GARLOT KING PELLAM OF LISTENGESE.........KING MELIODAS OF LIONES KING BAGDEAGUS.....................................KING OF THE LAKE KING TOLLEME LA FEINTES...........THE SOWDAN OF SYRIA

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And this blessed gift of venerating love has been given to too many humble craftsmen since the world began for us to feel any surprise that it should have existed in the soul of a Methodist carpenter half a century ago, while there was yet a lingering after-glow from the time when Wesley and his fellow-labourer fed on the hips and haws of the Cornwall hedges, after exhausting limbs and lungs in carrying a divine message to the poor.

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Austrey, at his country-seat in Cornwall and at St.

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He took with him his brother John, the second child of a poor couple in Cornwall, and, together, these men, between 1829 and 1831, redescended the river from Boussa to its mouth, describing it village by village, mile by mile."