庄

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shire

On-Yomi: ショウ

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 26-10-2006(61): In the Shire, hobbits used to live in caves. Nowadays their holes in the soil still look a little like caves.

2) [to_nihon] 28-12-2008(9): Remember at the end of the Lord of the Rings, when Saruman was found in the Shire trying to fill up all the hobbit's caves with soil? Or something like that.

3) [n1williams] 15-11-2009(4): In ancient times, a SHIRE (feudal village) began as a CAVE divided by walls of SOIL for each family's dwelling area (as in Clan of the Cave Bear).

4) [Chadokoro_K] 1-8-2007(4): feudal village […farm…, hamlet or district in Edo period] —– CLIFF-HOUSE-CAVE / SOIL ** Hint: … within this Khâz-Modan CLIFF-HOUSE CAVE is the SOIL used in the finest makeup and cosmetics [923]. It has been worked under a FEUDAL VILLAGE system since the Edo period. … It is such a lucrative FEUDAL farm VILLAGE that everyone plans to stay in this hamlet! [C] [N].

5) [cameron_en] 9-11-2008(3): In the Shire of Coober Pedy, everybody lives underground in caves.

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