shire

shire
shire O.E. scir "administrative office or district," from P.Gmc. *skizo (Cf. O.H.G. scira "care, official charge"). Ousted since 14c. by Anglo-Fr. COUNTY (Cf. county) (q.v.). The gentrified sense is from The Shires (1796), used by people in other parts of England of those counties that end in -shire; sense transferred to the hunting country of the Midlands (1860).

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