Dashwood

plural Dashwoods

1. A surname.

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   Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.

   1811, Jane Austen, chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility