Derby

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

(2): ( n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

County town of Derbyshire, on the Derwent, with manufactures of silk, cotton hosiery, lace, porcelain, &c.; it is the centre of a great railway system.

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