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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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cow 1 female bovine animal. OE.
cū = OS.
kō (Du.
koe), OHG.
kuo (G.
kuh), ON.
kýr :- Gmc. *
kō(u)z :- IE. *
gwōus, whence also Skr.
gāú-, Arm.
kov, Gr.
boûs, L.
bōs, OIr.
bó, Latv.
gùovs. The normal descendant of the mutated OE. pl.
cȳ is north.
kye; the form
kine (now arch.) descends from a ME. (XIII) extension of this with
-n from the weak decl.
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Cowes Community to Re-Create Itself With an Authentic Trading Feature in London at the Whyte & Mackay Earls Court Boat Show.
PR Newswire Europe; 6/4/2007; 700+ words
; LONDON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Earls Court Boat Show to Work With Cowes Community Throughout the Summer Season at the Round the Island Race, Cowes Week and Cowes Power Boat Festival Whyte and Mackay Earls Court Boat Show today announced...
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Breaking the Cowes cliche: developing the Isle of Wight economy beyond a week's summer sailing is a challenge that is being taken up by the public sector.(Property Uk: Hampshire, Dorset + south Wiltshire)
Magazine article from: Property Week; 10/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the deck shoe-shod wealthy descend on Cowes. Then, as quickly as they arrived...shops shut, the marina falls quiet and Cowes returns to sleepy neglect for another year. For seven days every year, Cowes Week projects to the world an image of...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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IT'S MAD COWES WEEK; (OR WHY SAILING IS THE NEW SEX...).
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...exclusive Corinthians Royal Yacht Club bar in Cowes yesterday, three blonde women of a certain...professed themselves highly satisfied with Cowes, compared with other events in the social...Marina you have to be a sailor. That is why Cowes still holds out against riffraff. Except...
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There's a party every night in Cowes, but Harry's not invited
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/11/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...he says. Harry lives and works in Cowes, the small Isle of Wight town with a...community. But for one week each summer - Cowes Week - it becomes apparent that it is a town divided. Last week was Cowes Week, the annual extravaganza when the...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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COMPETITION: SET SAIL FOR COWES LUXURY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/8/2000; 700+ words
; Skandia Life, sponsors of Cowes Week, are offering you the chance to...of Hearts, before sailing across to Cowes for the exciting start of the racing...opportunity to visit the historic town of Cowes before heading back to Southampton and...
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New breed of sailor brings cash to Cowes
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 8/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; Cowes Week, the annual regatta on the Isle of...years to design and build, is the star of Cowes Week. With Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie...new breed of yacht owners to be found at Cowes. He is the chief executive and major shareholder...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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New breed of sailor brings cash to Cowes.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; Byline: KEITH DOVKANTS Cowes Week, the annual regatta on the Isle...to design and build, is the star of Cowes Week. With Olympic gold medallist Ben...breed of yacht owners to be found at Cowes. He is the chief executive and major...
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Reportage: Class war at Cowes Week
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/30/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...their sponsor. They had just arrived for Cowes Week, the international festival of wealth...to bring pounds 15m of business to West Cowes. And almost nothing to the other half...but it runs right through the middle of Cowes, separating East from West. The only...
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Cowes week buoys rentals.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/2/1996; 700+ words
; Byline: RUPERT BATES COWES WEEK is the flagship of the yachting year...know the Isle of Wight only because of Cowes Week. It undoubtedly brings home buyers...a myth that people actually buy during Cowes Week. `They are too busy sailing and...
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Sailing: Cowes Week a bridging of eras Andrew Preece looks forward to a traditional yet diverse occasion
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/30/2000; ; 680 words
; ...the meat of a day of vintage Skandia Life Cowes Week racing set sail for a day of millennial...breeze, the contrast with modern-day Cowes Week grows starker with each year. Out...too. That is the peculiar attraction of Cowes: on a day like yesterday when the sea...
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Cowes regatta
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Cowes regatta. Cowes week is held early in August and is the climax of the yachting season. Cowes castle, built by Henry VIII, has been the headquarters of the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded 1815, since 1856. East and West Cowes lie on either...
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Cowes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cowes , town (1991 pop. 16,134), Isle of Wight, S...and the center for yachting in the British Isles. Cowes became the headquarters of the Royal Yacht Club in...works. Queen Victoria died in Osborne House in East Cowes.
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Dinner Jacket
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
...looser. While vacationing at his estate in Cowes, England, the British prince of Wales...prince. The new jacket was dubbed the "Cowes jacket," after the first place it was...changed little from Edward VII's original Cowes jacket. While "white tie" formal occasions...
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sailing
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...which caused a sensation when it visited Cowes in 1851. The Fastnet race, started in 1925, is from Cowes to Ireland and back to Plymouth. The governing...Royal Yachting Association, which organizes Cowes week in August. There is a Dinghy Cruising...
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yacht
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...sport since 1851, when the Royal Yacht Squadron (formed at Cowes, England, in 1812) offered a silver cup as a prize for a...s Cup is an international race held biennially since 1957 at Cowes. The Observer Single-Handed Transatlantic Race has been held...
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