Roxburgh

[ roks-bur-oh, -buhr-oh or, esp. British, -bruh ]

/ ˈrɒks bɜr oʊ, -bʌr oʊ or, esp. British, -brə /

a historic county in SE Scotland.

Also called Rox·burgh·shire

[roks-bur-oh-sheer, -sher, -buhr-, -bruh-] /ˈrɒks bɜr oʊˌʃɪər, -ʃər, -bʌr-, -brə-/.

Example sentences from the Web for roxburghshire

She is a Mrs. Cockburn; I forget of what place; but from Roxburghshire.

The Letters of Robert Burns |Robert Burns
Liddesdale, it will do the reader no harm to know, is the southernmost parish in Roxburghshire.

Cats |W. Gordon Stables
This was John Leyden, son of a shepherd in Roxburghshire, a lad living in extreme poverty.

Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy |Andrew Lang
The lands of Mowe are situated upon the river Bowmont, in Roxburghshire.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) |Walter Scott

Robert Davidson was born in the parish of Morebattle, Roxburghshire, in 1779.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III |Various

Roxburghshire

/ (ˈrɒksbərəʃɪə, -ʃə) /

(until 1975) a county of SE Scotland, now part of Scottish Borders council area