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View synonyms for country-and-western

country-and-western

[ kuhn-tree-uhn-wes-tern ]

country and western

noun

  1. another name for country music
  2. a fusion of cowboy songs and Appalachian music
  3. ( as modifier )

    country-and-western music

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of country-and-western1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

The first, in 1992, saw a country and western band perform on the car deck, as thousands of pounds were raised to help purchase a breast cancer scanner for the Western Isles.

From BBC

Sasha Boole: For more than 10 years, I was doing country and western folk music in Ukraine, trying to combine that with the Ukrainian soul and find new formulas.

The room would host a couple of functions during the week, he recalled, along with special themed evenings such as family night, country and western and disco.

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A country and western music venue in Scotland, nearly 4,000 miles and 150 years removed from the Civil War, voted this week to end its controversial display of the Confederate flag.

The early country pioneers the Maddox Brothers & Rose were “the best-dressed people in country and western,” according to one of their contemporaries.

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