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Cheshire

Name: Cheshire
Address: GB

53.1667°N -2.5833°W · Q23064

One English word in this atlas traces back to Cheshire. It sits in United Kingdom.

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Cheshire catnoun · 18th century

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The grin was proverbial in England decades before Lewis Carroll borrowed it.

Grinning like a Cheshire cat was already a stock English simile by the 1780s, long before Alice met the vanishing one in 1865. Why Cheshire is unsettled: the candidates include cheeses molded in the shape of a smiling cat and badly painted heraldic lions on county inn signs.

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