(n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
(n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.
Example Sentences:
(1) An earlier version said Samantha Cameron had accompanied the prime minister to Balmoral in September.
(2) Her main tax liability comes from her investment portfolio, which includes the Balmoral and Sandringham Estates, the value of which has never been disclosed.
(3) A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: “We do not comment on discussions between the Queen’s private secretary and civil servants.” A Downing Street spokesman said: “No comment.” A palace spokesman said of the prime minister’s discussions with the Queen at Balmoral: “As is the convention, we do not comment on conversations between the prime minister and the Queen.” A Downing Street spokesman said: “We do not discuss the prime minister’s conversations with Her Majesty the Queen.” • This article was amended on 17 December 2014.
(4) Speaking after Sunday service outside Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, the Queen told a wellwisher: “ Well, I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
(5) ‘Galloping colonial clot’ Key was described as a “galloping colonial clot” by the Daily Mail for breaking royal protocol and posting a photo of his personal visit with the Queen in the Balmoral home.
(6) They have fallen to 13.6%, while Scotland’s average has risen steadily, and is now higher than Balmore’s.
(7) The comments by the Queen came as she left Crathie Kirk near her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire after the Sunday morning service.
(8) Scottish life expectancy Four in 10 of Balmore’s 3,511 patients have chronic diseases.
(9) On menu at Queen's banquet for Xi Jinping: Balmoral venison and The Spy Who Loved Me Read more A double-page spread in the Beijing Youth Daily marvelled over the gusto with which China’s leader had been embraced and asked: “How does Buckingham Palace plan a bespoke visit for a foreign dignitary?” Another article explored the Communist party leader’s previous encounters with monarchs from countries including Spain and Cambodia.
(10) Someone who was there described her annual visit to Balmoral.
(11) Action already taken: Announced he would stand down at the next election, then hit at out "jealous" constituents who objected to his "merchant's house which looks like Balmoral".
(12) He received an honorary knighthood from the Queen at Balmoral in 2002 and receives an honorary degree today from Edinburgh University.
(13) Cameron discussed the referendum with the Queen a week before her public intervention when he travelled to Balmoral for his annual visit.
(14) This can be read as the Queen's Balmoral uniform – bodywarmer and tweed – with an elegant Italian makeover.
(15) On the day she was killed, William describes how the brothers were having a “very good time” at Balmoral, the Queen’s private Scottish estate, with their cousins.
(16) Though Wednesday's meeting lasted just 30 minutes – before the start of the Queen's traditional summer break at Balmoral on Friday – it adds another footnote to royal history.
(17) Like most cabinet ministers I was reluctant to waste my time - though at least (unlike some of my colleagues) I was never required to travel to Balmoral for a pointless ceremony which is, at best, a convenient legal fiction built round the senior ministers, judges and archbishops who become Right Honourable as a matter of course.
(18) Prime London rents exceed £100 a day Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Balmoral … the Queen’s new permanent home?
(19) At Balmore, a doctor’s dire ultimatums to quit smoking, or to cut down on fatty, sugary foods, will simply fail.
(20) You get quite good respect, to be honest with you.” Her colleague is Margaret Butterly, another Balmore veteran.
Oxford
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(2) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(4) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(5) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(6) The £77m, split between Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Norwich, will help improve existing cycle networks and pay for new ones, creating segregated routes in some areas.
(7) Adam Ramsay, 28, from Oxford, is volunteering over the weekend.
(8) The group receiving an Oxford meniscal-bearing implant, with no medial release, showed significantly better mechanical alignment than that receiving a fixed-bearing implant.
(9) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
(10) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(11) Cambridge was on the target list but not Oxford; Bristol but not Brighton; and Edinburgh but not Aberdeen.
(12) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(13) Opsonization of Staphylococcus aureus (Oxford strain) and specific IgG subclass antibodies against formalised staphylococci were measured in plasmas from 27 patients with significant S. aureus infections and 35 healthy adults and 15 children.
(14) She decided to become a teacher when she visited inner-city schools on an Oxford scheme to encourage state school pupils to apply there.
(15) Studies of age-specific incidence in Scotland and Oxford showed a close correlation between the regions and between men and women.
(16) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(18) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(19) The Oxford and Bethesda methods are presently the most commonly used techniques for measuring these antibodies.
(20) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.