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- Middle English · inherited fromGloucestreschire
- English todayGloucestershire
From Middle English Gloucestreschire; equivalent to Gloucester + -shire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gloucestershire
Today it means: A south western county of England bordered by the Severn estuary, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire. Full definition →
Middle English Gloucestreschire