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▪ I. Cheshire1|ˈtʃɛʃə(r)|
1. The name of an English county. Hence the phrase [of undetermined origin] to grin like a Cheshire cat.
1770–1855 [see cat 13 f]. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 49 Lavender was there..grinnin like a chessy cat. 1866Dodgson Alice in Wonderl. viii.
2. Comb. Cheshire acre (see quots.); Cheshire Cheese (a well-known kind); † Cheshire-round, ‘a rough dance’ (N.).
1808Holland Agric. Cheshire xvii. 342 Land was formerly very generally measured in this county by what is called the *Cheshire acre, containing 10,240 square yards; and this measure still continues to be employed to a certain extent, particularly in the northern part of the county. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 98/1 There are also local acres in various parts of England, such as the Cheshire acre of 8 yards to the pole. 1928Daily Express 31 July 3 How many square yards constitute a ‘Cheshire acre’?..10,240 square yards.
15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnassus Prol. 10 Hee never since durst name a peece of cheese, Thoughe *Chessire seems to priviledge his name. 1638T. Verney in V. Papers (1853) 197 Twenty holland cheeses, or good chessheir chees. 1809R. Langford Trade 82 A Cheshire Cheese..at 10d. p. lb.
1706Farquhar Recruiting Officer v. ii. (Hoppe) He shall box, wrestle, or dance the *Cheshire-round with any man in the country. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. II. iv. (N.) The fidlers, with their chaplets crown'd, Now gave the mob a Cheshire-round.
▪ II. Cheshire2|ˈtʃɛʃə(r)|
The name of Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard Cheshire (b. 1917), used attrib. as Cheshire home, to designate any of the Cheshire Foundation Homes for the disabled established by him in Britain and elsewhere.
1955Times 19 Feb. 4/7 Cheshire Homes.—Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C., founder of the Cheshire Foundation Homes, has opened a new Cheshire home for tuberculosis sufferers. 1984Ibid. 26 May 3/3 A Victorian country mansion, which was used as the county police headquarters at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, for more than 20 years, is to become a Cheshire home for the disabled. |