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Cumbrian   Listen
adjective
Cumbrian  adj.  Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; so called because most prominent at Cumberland.






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... homely intercourse with their mother earth. Mr. Thornburgh, who had come to the valley only a few years before from a parish in one of the large manufacturing towns, and who had no inherited interest in the Cumbrian folk and their ways, had only a very faint idea, and that a distinctly depreciatory one, of what these mythical predecessors of his, with their strange social status and unbecoming occupations, might be like. But there were one or ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward



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