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Worcestershire

[ woos-ter-sheer, -sher ]

noun

  1. a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.


Worcestershire

/ ˈwʊstəˌʃɪə; -ʃə /

noun

  1. a county of W central England, formerly (1974–98) part of Hereford and Worcester. Administrative centre: Worcester. Pop: 549 300 (2003 est). Area: 1742 sq km (674 sq miles)


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Place the mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce in a food processor.

In a saucepan, combine the Worcestershire sauce, lemons, and bay leaves.

Add the shrimp stock and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a boil over high heat.

In a bowl mix together the mayonnaise, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce to make the cocktail sauce.

Needless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.

Greyish granular quartz; like that of the Lickey Hill, in Worcestershire.

It is proverbial in Worcestershire that "you never hear the cuckoo before Tenbury fair or after Pershore fair."

Yet these fertile sources of authentic information have been almost entirely neglected by Worcestershire historians.

Husk (Songs of the Nativity) also gives this version, from an eighteenth-century Worcestershire broadside.

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