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Uplandish   Listen
adjective
Uplandish  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. (Obs.)
2.
Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. (Obs.) "His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt."






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"Uplandish" Quotes from Famous Books



... the village where I remayn, which have noted three things to be marveylously altered in Englande within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected, whereas, in their young dayes there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish townes of the realme (the religious houses and mannour places of their lordes alwayes excepted, and peradventure some great personages [parsonages]), but each one made his fire against a reredosse in the halle, where he dined and dressed his meate," This want of chimneys is noticeable ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield



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