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englishry
/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
noun 3
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2ADJ.
all, fair, fine, mythical
ENGLISHRY + NOUN
hair, kinds
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noun
1
Englishness.
Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.
It is these people who, taking with them so much furniture and Englishry of all kinds have set up everywhere communities with names like ‘Little England’, ‘Newest England’, ‘England Again’ which are more English than England ever was.
2
The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
3
In medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by English people and governed according to English law.
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Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.
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It is these people who, taking with them so much furniture and Englishry of all kinds have set up everywhere communities with names like ‘Little England’, ‘Newest England’, ‘England Again’ which are m
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Yes, [Philip] Larkin was an icon of Englishry, and a fine specimen of its complexes and neuroses: not only arrogant and xenophobic hut also inward-looking, frightened, and depressive.
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