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Staf⋅ford

[staf-erd]
–noun
1. Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. Sir Edward William, 1819–1901, New Zealand political leader, born in Scotland: prime minister 1856–61, 1865–69, 1872.
3. a city in and the county seat of Staffordshire, in central England. 114,300.
4. Staffordshire.
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Stafford 
town in England, mid-11c., Stæfford, lit. "Ford by a landing-place," from O.E. stæð + ford. County town of Staffordshire, which, as a name for a type of earthenware and porcelain made there is attested from 1765.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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