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Sherwood Forest   /ʃˈərwˌʊd fˈɔrəst/   Listen
Sherwood Forest

noun
1.
An ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band.






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"Sherwood Forest" Quotes from Famous Books



... would be inoffensive, were it not that it is, and is felt to be, no genuine dialect at all, but a mere literary convention, a mixture of broad Yorkshire and Lothian Scots, not only utterly out of place in Sherwood forest, but such as can never have been spoken by any sane rustic. Still more than of Spenser is Ben's dictum true of himself, that where he departed from the cultivated English of his day, whether in imitation ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... and Company. And in other more or less fixed spots and corners were Europe, to which the family voyaged occasionally; Niagara Falls—Mrs. Bailey's honeymoon had been spent at the real Niagara; the King's palace; the den of the wicked witch; Sherwood Forest; and Jordan, Marsh ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln



Words linked to "Sherwood Forest" :   timberland, woodland, forest, England, timber



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