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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire. · A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616). · A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia. · A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) + dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.
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