new_england
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Robert_Frost , for_instance , writes about rural life in New_England , but he does not include any significant amount of folklore in his poems . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Had the situation been reversed , had , for_instance , England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New_England , there is little doubt that large_numbers of Southerners would have happily put_on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The plants along Route_128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New_England rocks and trees . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)The doctor was wearing a long New_England greatcoat , hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens . |
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