PENISTONE

Proper noun

Penistone

A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).

Anagrams

• epitenons, stone pine

Etymology

From the village of Penistone in Yorkshire, England.

Noun

penistone (countable and uncountable, plural penistones)

(obsolete) A coarse woolen material or frieze, used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Synonym: forest whites

Anagrams

• epitenons, stone pine

Source: Wiktionary



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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