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Dorset
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A county in south-west England, on the English Channel coast.
"They rented a cottage on the Dorset coast for the summer."
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Etymology
From the county town of Dorchester, via Old English Dornsǣte, Dorsǣte, reduced from Durnovaria + -sǣte ("people, dwellers").