Definition of "Cornewall"
Cornewall
proper noun
Obsolete spelling of Cornwall. (A county)
Quotations
England is the greateſt part, and is diuided into 40 Counties, which ve call ſhires, whereof ten (that is to ſay) Kent, Suſſex, Surrey, Southampton, Barkſhire, Wiltſhie, Dorſetſhire, Somerſetſhire, Deuonſhire and Cornewall, doe containe the firſt part that Iſland: which part bounding toward the South, ſtandeth berweene the Thames and the Sea.
1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590