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low country

n.
A low-lying area of land, especially the coastal plains of the Carolinas and Georgia.

low′-coun′try adj.
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low′ coun`try


n.
a low-lying region or area, as the coastal plains of the Carolinas and Georgia.

low′-coun`try



adj.
Often, Low-Country. of or pertaining to the Low Countries or to a low country.
[1790–1800]
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(AP) -- The Technical College of the Low-country in Beaufort says a data breach has been reported involving the publication of names and Social Security numbers of about 90 former students.
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Distinguished as the oldest Junior League cookbook in print and filled with low-country cuisine pioneered by local Gullah cooks of African descent, it has since been reprinted and spawned a sequel, Charleston Receipts Repeats (Favorite Recipes Press, 1986, 19ドル.95, ISBN 0-960-78545-0) and an update of the original, Charleston Party Receipts (Workman Publishing Co., October 1993, 13ドル.95, ISBN 0-945-57584-X).
low-country setting of the 841st Transportation Battalion.
With "Low-Country" vistas that beg to be painted, a 10ドル-million arts center and more than two dozen galleries, this South Carolina island nurtures a lively art scene.
It shares a semi-tropical geography of salt marshes, lagoons, sandy beaches, moss-draped oaks and magnolias with other Low-Country towns like Savannah, Ga., Charleston and Beaufort, S.C.--all less than 100 miles away.
This problem is more forcibly illustrated in Strickland's essay on the experience of rural blacks in the South Carolina low country after the Civil Wan Strickland maintains that low-country blacks succeeded in establishing and preserving a system of work and life that allowed for considerable freedom from the constraints of market capitalism.
Marvin Woods, former executive chef at Cafe Beulah in New York City and at the critically acclaimed Savannah in Miami, reinterprets the food traditions of the Carolinas in The New Low-Country Cooking.

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