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Word: coortin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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Roger Wellincroft is told by his father to "go coortin' " Louisa Kilner for her "brass." To the God-fearing Yorkshire farm folk of the East Riding, brass is land, the deity they worship six days of the week. Louisa is to inherit her father's farm on Sunk Island-a flat, melancholy spit of land reclaimed from the Humber estuary. To Sunk Island, Roger goes a-coortin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tempest in the East Riding | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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