Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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Lisbon
Liverpool
Cape of Good Hope
Levant
Oxfordshire
Gresham College
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Oxfordshire

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Definition:
a county in south-central England
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The county has major education and tourist industries and is noted for the concentration of performance motorsport companies and facilities. Oxford University Press is the largest firm among a concentration of print and publishing firms; the University of Oxford is also linked to the concentration of local biotechnology companies. [...]

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“Oxfordshire, you say? There are no Beauchamps in Oxfordshire that I know of.”
“How would you know?” I snapped. “You’re from Sussex yourself.”

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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