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Loamshire|ˈləʊmʃə(r)|
Name given to an imaginary rural county, much used in novels and plays; also (pl.) a regiment from this county. Also attrib.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede I. v. 108 He was only a captain in the Loamshire Militia. Ibid. xii. 230 Jolly housekeeping—finest stud in Loamshire. 1866― F. Holt I. i. 18 Transome Court was a large mansion..with a park and grounds as fine as any to be seen in Loamshire. 1912G. W. E. Russell Afterthoughts xvii. 158 In Loamshire ‘my foot is on my native heath’, and I have been renewing my youth by contact with my early friends. 1920‘Sapper’ Bull-Dog Drummond i. 24 Captain Hugh Drummond, D.S.O., M.C., late of His Majesty's Royal Loamshires. 1954K. Tynan in Observer 31 Oct. 6/1 Look about you; survey the peculiar nullity of our drama's prevalent genre, the Loamshire play. 1962Listener 6 Dec. 959/1 They [sc. English novelists] also have to avoid the pitfall of regionalism and dialect. They have to avoid Loamshire. 1974Green & Hooper C.S. Lewis x. 247 In the version which Green read..Digory..stayed in a farm cottage with an old countryman called Piers and his wife, who spoke with a rather laboured ‘Loamshire’ accent. |