counterie

plural counteries

1. UKalternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative spelling of country.

   He's now in that bright blissful counterie

   1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LIX, page 115

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   Now, I can say no more ; to the Law-board I must go, / There to take the last farewell of my friends and counterie ;

   1888, “The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds”, in Henry Halliday Sparling, editor, Irish Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Irish Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads, Walter Scott, page 381

   She's the fairest young maiden that e’er I did see, / She exceeds all the maids in the north counterie.

   1932, “Molly of the North Country”, in The Musical Quarterly, volume 18, G. Schirmer, Inc., page 110

   You shall dry up your milk as a virgin so free, / And pass for a maid in some strange counterie.

   2011 [1965], Frank Purslow, “Home, Dearest Home”, in Marrow Bones: English Folk Songs From The Hammond And Gardiner Mss., Read Books Limited, page 91