Leicester definition

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A borough of central England east-northeast of Birmingham. Built on the site of a Roman settlement, it is an important industrial center.
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Any of a breed of large, white-faced sheep having long coarse wool, developed in Leicestershire, a county of central England.
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A hard cheese similar to Cheddar and usually orange.
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Any of a breed of large sheep with long, coarse wool, and, usually, a wedge-shaped face, originally developed in Leicestershire.
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(person) (Robert Dudley) 1532?-88; Eng. courtier & general: favorite of Elizabeth I.
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(place) City in central England; county seat of Leicestershire.
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Leicester Sentence Examples

  • Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, he published in 1793 a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical.

  • As a matter of fact, the parliament at Leicester, in which the speeches were supposed to have been made, began on the 30th of April 1414 before Chicheley was archbishop. The rolls of parliament show that he was not present in the parliament at all.

  • Utterly discredited, Leicester -(6th of August 1587) abandoned the task, United Netherlands was to be raised.

  • For these and other services Bonner had been rewarded by the grant of several livings, and in 1535 he was made archdeacon of Leicester.

  • According to Clarendon the latter, though frequently victorious in a charge, dale, subsequently falling upon and defeating the royalist centre, and pursuing the fugitives as far as the outskirts of Leicester.

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