holland

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1. A historical province of the Netherlands.
2. (informal, metonymically, proscribed)the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
3. A historical kingdom in Europe.
4. A historical county of the Holy Roman Empire.
5. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands.
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31. A community in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, Manitoba, Canada.
32. A southern suburb of Oxted, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ4050).
33. A settlement on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY4851).
34. A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland.
35. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.

noun

1. (countable, historical, uncountable)A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.

   “I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.”

   “His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table”