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Kentish

NOUN
  1. a dialect of Middle English
  2. one of the major dialects of Old English

How To Use Kentish In A Sentence

  • There were other parts of this garden that were also delightful, including The Nuttery which was a sea of light green, yellow and white flowers and ferny foliage under a plantation of Kentish cobnuts, a variety of hazel. Sissinghurst Part Two « Fairegarden
  • And although the English will no lesse disdaine, than any Nation under heaven can doe, to be beaten upon their owne ground or elsewhere by a forraigne enemie; yet to entertaine those that shall assaile us, with their owne beefe in their bellies, and before they eate of our Kentish Capons, I take to be the wisest way. Operation Sea Lion
  • Partible inheritance was, for example, a distinct feature of Kentish gavelkind tenures, which were classified as free, and also survived amongst customary tenants in parts of northern and eastern England.
  • Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
  • Conversely, some of Oudolf's perennials are chic enough for Sissinghurst, the cultish Kentish garden made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson — especially a wine-dark variety of scabiosa, or pincushion flower, that bloomed on the High Line during this spring's inaugural festivities. Up in the Park
  • Round the outer coast only a few houseless gaps marked the spots where 'long lines of cliff, breaking, had left a chasm '-- the gaps that afterwards bore the familiar names of Ramsgate, that is to say Ruim's Gate, or' the Door of Thanet; 'Margate, that is to say, Mere Gate, the gap of the mere (Kentish for a brook), Science in Arcady
  • I haunted antique shops in Kentish Town and bought old furniture for very little. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others enjoyed the shepherd's pie made with Kentish lamb with sautéed potatoes and a red wine sauce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the Kentish king, admonished by a dream of the archbishop's, made submission, recalled the truant bishops, and restored Justus to Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain
  • Suffolk to call the midland counties to arms, while Sir Thomas Wyatt led the Kentishmen on London. History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
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