How to pronounce“shire”in English
But the ace in our hole was that Andrew was working as a professional chef in Boston, and he was working with Chris Schlesinger and Lydia
Shire, who at the time were two of the best chefs in the country, who happened to be in Boston.
And so having-- starting out with the two of them, and then he went on to work with Anne Rosenzweig at Arcadia
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Definitions of “shire”
An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
“Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.”
The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively.
“You, my love, are a little paragon—positively a little jewel—You have more brains than half the shire— […]”
To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
“County Longford was shired in 1586.”
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