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Lewis and Harris

Proper noun

Meaning

Lewis and Harris

The largest island in the Outer Hebrides and Western Isles council area off the coast of Scotland.
Synonym: Lewis with Harris

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

And, of course, I made trips back to the Hebrides to visit the remains of cleared villages on the west coast of Lewis and Harris, and to select the locations I would use for the book. Source: Internet

J. Buchanan, Scotland (Langenscheidt, 3rd edn., 2003), p. 49. Some areas, like the thinly populated Island of Lewis and Harris suffered some of the highest proportional losses of any part of Britain. Source: Internet

He visited the Granite City ( Aberdeen ), the Isle of Rust ( Lewis and Harris ) and a number of less-renowned Scottish footballing towns, guided by his "Scotnav". Source: Internet

Other non-geological sources sometimes claim the rocks of Lewis and Harris are "the oldest in Britain", meaning that they are the oldest deposits of large bedrock. Source: Internet

Remarkably, the island does not have a common name in either English or Gaelic and is referred to as "Lewis and Harris", "Lewis with Harris", "Harris with Lewis" etc. For this reason it is treated as two separate islands below. Source: Internet

The Lewis Pipe Band was founded in 1904 and the Lewis and Harris Piping Society in 1977. Source: Internet

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