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Yorkshire

/ˈjɔːkʃə/ noun C2
  1. A Yorkshire pudding. (informal)
  2. A Yorkshire canary. (informal)

Plural Yorkshires

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He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 204 · C1
I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 204 · C1

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