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holland

noun A2
  1. A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland. (countable, uncountable)

Plural hollands

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At one o’clock it began to rain, and I met Harry Murcher—him who has the Holland Grove beat—and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta Street a-talkin’.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 41 · B2
“In Brixton Road, this morning,” it ran, “a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the ‘White Hart’ Tavern and Holland Grove.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 47 · B2
We'll put him on the wrong track about it, and before he finds that it is the wrong track it will be in Holland and we out of the country."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 44 · B2
This will has already constituted Haydée heiress of the rest of my fortune, consisting of lands, funds in England, Austria, and Holland, furniture in my different palaces and houses, and which without the twenty millions and the legacies to my servants, may still amount to sixty millions.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 904 · C1

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