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is the Latin castraʹ-shire, called by the Romans Devaʹna castra (the camp town of Deva, or Dee-mouth).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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