Lexicographical Neighbors of Dukery
Literary usage of Dukery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Agriculture in 1850-51 by James Caird (1852)
"Near Worksop, the district called " the dukery" is occupied by the seats of the
Dukes of Newcastle and Portland, and the Earl Manvers and Earl of ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"Тик dukery.—Thoroton, in his 'History of Nottinghamshire,' frequently refers to
Regist, de Wirke, (see p. 454). I shall be thankful if any reader of ' N. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"His Worksop, The dukery and Sherwood Forest, 1875, takes high rank among
topographical books ; while his last publication, the large and handsome volume ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"dukery, duchy. R. has diir/teri/, with a quotation from ... A certain district
in Nottinghamshire is called the dukery from having had several ducal ..."
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