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单词 scottish sea
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Scottish Sea
Scottish Sea n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) now historical (a name for) the Firth of Forth, an estuary of the River Forth separating Fife, to the north, from Edinburgh and the Lothians to the south.
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a1200 De situ Albaniae (1973) 242 Illa aqua optima que scottice uocata est Froch, britannice Werid, romane uero Scottewatre..quia regna Scottorum et Anglorum diuidit.]
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 33 (MED) Þe souþ partie of Albania..lith from þe water of Twyde anon to þe Scottische see [L. mare Scoticum].
a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 11 Perth, which is clepid Sant Johns towne, which is from Edenbourgh on that other side of the Scottesh See, the which is vulgarly clepid the Water of Lethe.
1573 T. Twyne tr. H. Llwyd Breuiary of Britayne f. 48v The water there which is now called Forthea, was called the Picticum Sea, and afterward the Scottish Sea.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 117/2 He advised him to pass the Scotish Sea.
1776 G. Ridpath & P. Ridpath Border-Hist. Eng. & Scotl. 225 The country beyond the Scottish sea, or between the river Forth and the mountains.
1862 W. Anderson Sc. Nation II. 552/2 The Scottish sea, as the Frith of Forth was anciently designated.
1912 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. 17 329 Scotland proper, north of the Forth or Scottish sea.
2000 R. R. Davies First Eng. Empire (2002) iii. 56 The most obvious boundary in northern Britain was the great moss between Clyde and Forth, the Scottish Sea as it was appropriately named.
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