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68 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)

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swire

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Definition:
1. neck [obsolete]
2. a valley
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an old northern term for the descent of a hill

Mrs. and Mr. William Platt. Stories of the Scottish Border (1910)

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In ward wary the watcher hearing come that man mildhearted eft rising with swire ywimpled to him her gate wide undid.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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“that it is impossible I could ever have come up that strait swire before with a bairn on my back, an’ a young woman gaun beside me exactly like you; an’ that while in that condition, I should have met wi’ a bull an’ a cow coming out the path by themsels, an’ thought o’ yon craig for a shelter to the bairn that I was carrying;

James Hogg. The Brownie of Bodsbeck; and other tales (1818)
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