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holland
UK /ˈhɒ.lənd/ US /ˈhɑ.lənd/
name 7noun 1
Definitions
name
1
A traditional region of the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland.
Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
2
the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
3
An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands.
4
A number of places in the United States:
5
A number of places in the United States:
name
1
A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland.
2
An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.
noun
1
A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.
His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table
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