Caernarvonshire
a historic county in Gwynedd, in NW Wales.
Historical Examples
Headlong Hall Thomas Love Peacock
Sermons of Christmas Evans Joseph Cross
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (of II) Charles Darwin
Finger-Ring Lore William Jones
Life of Charles Darwin G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
Select Poems of Thomas Gray Thomas Gray
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines Andrew Ure
Y Gododin Aneurin
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation Robert Williams
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation Robert Williams
noun
(until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
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