Derby
['dɝbi]
Definition
(n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
(n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
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Definition
n. a great horse-race held annually on the Derby Day on the Wednesday before Whitsuntide on Epsom Downs near London so called from the Derby stakes instituted by the Earl of Derby in 1780; a rounded felt hat with narrow brim.—ns. Der′byshire-neck a form of the disease goitre occurring in Derbyshire; Der′byshire-spar a fluorspar found in Derbyshire.
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Examples
- From Derby still journeying northward, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmoreland. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The du Lac Sevres and the Trevenna George II plate were out; so was the van der Luyden Lowestoft (East India Company) and the Dagonet Crown Derby. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Just hold out while I fix the derbies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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