Leeds
[li:dz]
Definition
(noun.) a city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry.
Edited by Fred--From WordNet
Examples
- One of these, known as Blenkinsop’s Leeds engine, ran on a tramway, and would draw sixteen wagons with a weight of seventy tons at the rate of about three miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Miss Osborne from Russell Square came in her grand chariot with the flaming hammer-cloth emblazoned with the Leeds arms. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Nadine