ayrshire
Speech parts
1. ayrshire - Noun
2. Ayrshire - Proper noun
Meaning
One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
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Examples
A curling house near Stewarton in Ayrshire, Scotland, now converted into a dwelling Street sign in the village of Ceres, Fife.
An attendance of 173,134 at Troon in 2016 was marginally down on 2004 figure at the Ayrshire venue.
In the Borders, Ayrshire, Shetland, Lothians, hundreds of thousands of people carry their relationships, traditions, identities around in a language that is increasingly threadbare and calling out for status and support.
It means NHS Grampian places fourth-worst waiting times in Scotland, behind NHS Tayside, NHS Lothian and NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
It comes after it was revealed at the weekend that at least 37 patients – in Ayrshire and Arran, Grampian, Tayside, Fife and Lanarkshire – who had tested positive for the were discharged into care homes.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran is contacting patients waiting for surgery, such as hip and knee replacements, whose operations now need to be rescheduled.