Shetland
['ʃetlənd]
Definition
(noun.) an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
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Examples
- More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been assured, is a common price of common labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Little Georgy went up and looked at the Shetland pony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We will, if you can bear a sea-voyage, go to the Isles--the Hebrides, the Shetland, the Orkney Islands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This summer, Caroline, Mrs. Pryor and I go out into the North Atlantic, beyond the Shetland, perhaps to the Faroe Isles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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