A county in southwestern England known for its coastline, rural countryside, and traditional cream tea made with clotted cream.
From Old English Defnasc, based on the Defnas people. '-shire' is a suffix meaning county or region. The name has been used since Anglo-Saxon times to describe this geographic area.
Devonshire cream tea is a legitimate cultural tradition where the cream goes ON TOP of the jam on the scone, and this actually causes arguments in England about whether it's 'correct'—it's wild how seriously people take their regional food traditions.
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