Etymology

Antrobus

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6479). Full definition →

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Apparently from either: * "within the woods", from the Norman French Entre-bois. (Eliding the last consonant verbally is only a latter-day variation in French originating in Paris.) * the Old Norse personal name Eindriði + buski (“bush, thicket”).

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