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Inverness

[ in-ver-nes, in-ver-nes ]

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noun

Also called In·ver·ness·shire [in-ver-, nes, -sheer, -sher]. a historic county in NW Scotland.
a seaport and administrative district in the Highland region, in N Scotland. 1,080 sq. mi. (2,797 sq. km).
(often lowercase) an overcoat with a removable cape.
Also called Inverness cape. (often lowercase) the cape of this coat or one resembling it, especially a loose, full, wool or worsted cape in a plaid pattern.

Inverness

/ ˌɪnvəˈnɛs /

a city in N Scotland, administrative centre of Highland: tourism and specialized engineering. Pop: 40 949 (2001)
sometimes not capital an overcoat with a removable cape

The Macbeths know this; the audience knows this; but the unsuspecting Scots who wake at Inverness the morning after do not.

Manka's Inverness Lodge, which, sadly, burned down in 2006, was owned by chef Margaret Grade.

In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.

As a center for tourists, Inverness is increasingly popular and motor cars are very common.

From Inverness an unsurpassed highway leads to Aberdeen, a distance of a little over one hundred miles.

Inverness Wood, which had been hotly disputed for the six previous weeks, was taken by the London troops.

His own county is not Argyleshire, but Inverness, and we did not deal much in local myth.

In a few minutes he overtook her, wrapped in a long Inverness cape from head to foot, and they walked on side by side.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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