Synonyms:
Devon
Meaning: red dual-purpose cattle of English origin
Synonyms:
Devon, Devonshire
Meaning: a county in southwestern England
Usage examples
Somerset, and Devon, and make an entire conquest of Cornwall.
But for a centre of adventure I choose the Long Walk; it beckoned me somewhat as the North-West Passage beckoned my seafaring ancestors--the buccaneering mariners of Elizabethan Devon.
These trackways, these green roads of England, these roads already disused when the Romans made their highway past Silbury Hill to Bath, can still be traced for scores of miles through the land, running to Salisbury and the English Channel, eastward to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwall.