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Dorset

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Once the seat of a British tribe, calling themselves Dwr-trigs (water-dwellers). The Romans colonised the settlement, and Latinised Dwr-trigs into Duro-trigës. Lastly came the Saxons, and translated the original words into their own tongue, dor-sætta (water-dwellers).

 

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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.

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Doric Dialect
Doric Land
Doric Reed
Doricourt
Dorigen
Dorimant
Dorinda
Dormer Window
Dornock
Dorothea (St.)
Dorset
Dorsetian Downs
Dositheans
Doson
Doss
Doss-house (A)
Dosser
Do-the-Boys Hall
Dot and go One (A)
Dotterel
Douay Bible

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