Henley Definition

hĕnlē
henleys
noun
A knit shirt, top, etc. typically having a crew neck with a band collar, and a buttoned placket.
Webster's New World
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proper name
City in SE England, on the Thames: site of an annual rowing regatta.
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other
A town of south-central England west of London, noted for its annual rowing regatta (established 1839).
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Other Word Forms of Henley

Noun

Singular:
henley
Plural:
henleys

Origin of Henley

  • After Henley where such shirts were traditionally worn by crews rowing in the annual regatta held there

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the town of Henley in England, where the rowers wore shirts of this type

    From Wiktionary

Henley Sentence Examples

  • In Henley Street, close by, is the house in which the poet was born, greatly altered in external appearance, being actually two halftimbered cottages connected.

  • The buildings lie close to the Thames, and the school is famous for rowing, sending an eight to the regatta at Henley each year.

  • The treatise on husbandry of Walter of Henley, dating from the early 13th century, is very valuable as describing the management of the demesne under the twoor three-field system.

  • The literature of agriculture, in abeyance since the treatise of Walter of Henley, makes another beginning in the 16th century.

  • After passing Reading it bends northward to Henley (65), eastward past Great Marlow (57) to Bourne End (54), and southward to Taplow and Maidenhead (494), receiving the Loddon on the right near Shiplake above Henley.

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