1894 Brewer’s / C / Cotswold Barley
You are as long a-coming as Cotswold barley. Cotswold, in Gleucestershire, is a very cold, bleak place on the wolds, exposed to the winds, and very backward in vegetation, but yet it yields a good late supply of barley.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.